A picture you won’t find in The Spirit of 45 by Ken Loach There have been black people in Britain at least from Roman times; some historians claim that north Africans were here 3,000 years ago. The first Chinese visitor we know of was Jesuit priest Shen Foutsong, who communicated in Latin when he worked […]
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The Yellowface sequence from Anna Chen’s solo show, Anna May Wong Must Die! (2009). Hollywood legends we have loved getting silly with the oriental make-up. There are many contenders who could have been added to this slideshow. Luise Rainer was cast as the wife in the MGM movie of Pearl S Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster,
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Here’s the first part of the video from Saturday’s Q&A session with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang talking to Dr Amanda Rogers at London’s new Park Theatre in the week of the British premiere of Yellow Face. Produced by Special Relationship Productions (helmed by Kevin Shen and Lucy Fenton), Yellow Face was DHH’s first
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My review of Yellow Face in the Morning Star 4 stars Tuesday 28 May 2013 by Anna Chen Yellow Face Park Theatre, London N4 This smart and savvy comedy delivers a knock-out blow to any still-entrenched belief in certain crepuscular crannies of theatre land that east Asians can’t produce culture. Racism no longer has an
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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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Perhaps it’s unconscious and far from deliberate but there’s a set of prejudices in the Left that they just won’t confront. You can be a woman, non-white or working class but not all three at once or you get the INVISIBILITY BOMB exploded all over you. Feminist Camilla Power wrote to me earlier this month
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