London, England, United Kingdom
Forgotten遗忘 will be playing at Arcola 23rd October - 17th November 2018 and Theatre Royal Plymouth (The Drum) 17th - 21st October 2018. 遗忘 : ‘Forgotten’. ‘Left behind’. ‘Erased’ Inspired by the little-known story of World War One’s Chinese Labour Corps, British East Asian companies Moongate and Yellow Earth come together for the first time to present Daniel York Loh’s new play Forgotten 遗忘. 1917. Shandong Province, Northern China. Times are tough in Horse Shoe Village. Old Six and Second Moon struggle to earn enough to feed their young child. Big Dog struggles to overcome opium addiction and for Eunuch Lin, the fall of the Imperial Dynasty couldn’t have come at a worse time. Could a fierce war far away in Europe present an opportunity to put both themselves and their struggling nation on its feet? At the height of World War One, 140,000 Chinese men left everything and travelled half way around the world to work for Britain and the Allies behind the front lines. Their involvement was considered potentially pivotal in the outcome of the war yet remains largely untold, written out of history.
Overheard - site specific, immersive theatre Augmented Chinatown - voices in both the English and Mandarin versions.
Currently in rehearsals for ‘Citizens of Nowhere’. Playing as part of ‘China Changing’ at the Southbank Centre. A site specific audio drama at Southbank Centre October 2018. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131686-citizens-nowhere-2018
BEAST short films uses verbatim dialogue taken from interviews with British East Asians working in cinema and television. Each film uses their words and restages them classic British film or television dramas, but with East Asians actors in the leading role in order to highlight the invisibility of our representation on screen. Whassup with the Wongs directed by Rosa Fong (Edge Hill University) and based on verbatim research interviews by Dr. Diana Yeh (City University of London) highlights the following: the marginalization of experienced British East Asian writers; how requirements of ‘experience’ needed by white and British East Asian writers differ; how little value is placed on empowering British East Asian writers to present British East Asian narratives; how it is deemed unproblematic for a British East Asian narrative to be crafted by a writer with little or no knowledge or experience of everyday British East Asian life, and the risk of racial stereotypes perpetuated by engaging such writers. The film also highlights the precarious position of British East Asian writers in the difficulties they experience in speaking out, and their maltreatment in being expected to undertake work for no payment.
Creative Producer for 'The Fu Manchu Complex' http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/the-fu-manchu-complex
Sell out production of 'Into The Numbers' by Christopher Chen