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CRAP LYRICS: What do Siouxie Sioux and Rod Stewart share with Bernard Manning?

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Charles Shaar Murray just read me a brilliant demolition of “Hong Kong Garden” by Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees and “Every Picture Tells A Story” by Rod Stewart from journalist and former NME writer Johnny “Cigarettes” Sharp who has written a most excellent book, Crap Lyrics (pub Portico). Punk rock never had any truck with […]

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David Henry Hwang interview: race, class and Yellow Face

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My Morning Star interview with David Henry Hwang, whose play Yellow Face launched London’s new Park Theatre last month. ‘We’re pretty good on race sometimes but terrible on class’ East Asian playwright DAVID HENRY HWANG talks to Anna Chen about issues of cultural assimilation and equality of opportunity  ONLY six months before I finally meet David

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David Henry Hwang comes to London: Yellow Face at the Park Theatre

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Anna and Dr Amanda Rogers at Thursday’s Yellow Face press night Amanda and Charles Shaar Murray on press night Kevin Shen (who plays DHH in Yellow Face) introduces today’s Q&A session with David Henry Hwang and Dr Amanda Rogers Amanda and David in the Yellow Face Q&A David Henry Hwang To the spanking new Park

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RSC Orphan of Zhao: British East Asian Actors’ statement

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The British East Asian Actors group (of which I am one) has issued a statement concerning the recent RSC casting debacle over The Orphan of Zhao. British East Asian ActorsSTATEMENT30th October 2012 The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)The Orphan of Zhao BRITISH EAST ASIAN ACTORS CALL FOR PUBLIC FORUM OVER RSC CASTING CONTROVERSY British East Asian

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The Orphan of Zhao: RSC casts Asians as dogs and maid in Chinese classic

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The news that the revered Royal Shakespeare Company has not only given a measly three out of 17 roles in their production of the Chinese classic, The Orphan of Zhao, to Asian actors, but that these parts are for two dogs and a maid, has quite gasted my flabber. None of the main roles are

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