Here’s my South China Morning Post magazine column on February’s Opening the Door event at the Young Vic. (Published 17 March 2013) Full version below. Was it when I reached for not one but TWO bags of cheese ‘n onion crisps that my greed was exposed? First I’m demanding equal opportunities in the culture as […]
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Almost 200 actors and theatre creatives — mostly of east Asian heritage — attended this unique event in London on Monday 11th February 2013. “Opening the door” was facilitated by Improbable in association with Equity, TMA/SOLT, Arts Council England, ITC, CDG and the Young Vic Theatre, and galvanised by the British East Asian Artists group. Up for
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Anna Chen – Thursday, 15 November 2012 At last it is out. I’ve been champing at the bit, positively having a conniption while all the reviews came out, but finally mine is published and here it is. A quick update: the British East Asian Artists have sprung up to challenge these archaic attitudes towards us
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Had we been ninja, we could have crept stealthily into the village without being seen. However, as we had done our research — which in this case consisted of being Chinese and paying attention — we blew into town and proceeded to make like we were proper Ingrish which, as we all know from recent
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First night done. Tec hitches aplenty but all performed with great gusto and fun by myself and the wonderful Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies, rockin’ the show on guitar and bass. I’m still making last minute changes to the script which is now at the stage where I can start cutting like
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How touching that the much maligned and misunderstood English Defence League should insist that they are not racist to anyone who’ll listen, especially in the wake of their admirer Britvic’s shooting skirmish in Norway. Nope, not racist at all. I stand corrected. Here’s a video of the respectable EDL preparing to march on a mosque
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