From Shore to Shore E-Book

Mary Cooper

• Herausgeber: WS
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 71

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Three stories, three lives, three journeys to find a place called home.
Cheung Wing is escaping from war, Mei Lan’s had enough of the potato peeler, and Yi Di wants the impossible – her parents’ approval.
Award-winning writer Mary Cooper and multilingual collaborator M W Sun have woven together stories of love and loss, struggle and survival into a powerful drama. Blending English, Mandarin and Cantonese, From Shore to Shore tells the untold stories of Chinese communities in the UK.

Reviews

"Drawn from conversations with Chinese people living in West Yorkshire, the stories are compelling not for any high drama but for the rich detail of lives lived. They have the impressionistic quality of a dream.

There’s the boy separated from his mother during the Sino-Japanese war; the clever daughter born under China’s one-child policy, never good enough for the father who wanted a son; and the girl suffering playground racism after an early childhood in Hong Kong. Their displacement is not just from one side of the world to the other. It’s in the shifting attitudes of the generations, a clash of values as well as of cultures. What emerges is a quest for self-definition: what does it mean to be Chinese when being Chinese can mean so many things?" **** The Guardian

Authors:

Mary Cooper
Award-winning writer, Mary Cooper, has written extensively for theatre, radio and television. She has written more than 30 stage plays which have been commissioned and toured by theatre companies throughout England and Wales. For radio, she has written seven single plays and a ten part series for BBC Radio Four. For screen, her short film Missing Out won the IVCA Award for Best Drama and for television she was a winner in the Granada/Yorkshire New Voices scheme. www.mary-cooper.co.uk

MW Sun
MW Sun 孙培德 was born in Shanghai but grew up in Hong Kong. She is a former news journalist reporting for the BBC, CNBC and Radio Television Hong Kong in London, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Her short play, Arachnophobia, was produced by Yellow Earth Theatre. She is currently working on a commissioned new play and a novel.

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Mary Cooper

Award-winning writer, Mary Cooper, has written extensively for theatre, radio and television. She has written more than 30 stage plays which have been commissioned and toured by theatre companies throughout England and Wales. For radio, she has written seven single plays and a ten part series for BBC Radio Four. For screen, her short film Missing Out won the IVCA Award for Best Drama and for television she was a winner in the Granada/Yorkshire New Voices scheme. www.mary-cooper.co.uk

MW Sun

MW Sun 孙培德 was born in Shanghai but grew up in Hong Kong. She is a former news journalist reporting for the BBC, CNBC and Radio Television Hong Kong in London, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Her short play, Arachnophobia, was produced by Yellow Earth Theatre. She is currently working on a commissioned new play and a novel.

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ISBNs: 978-1-912430-25-3 (print)

978-1-912430-26-0 (ebook)

From Shore

to Shore

by

Mary Cooper

with MW Sun

Acknowledgements

With thanks to our partners: Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; Northern Stage, Newcastle; Everyman & Playhouse, Liverpool; The Dukes, Lancaster; More Music, Morecambe; Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Confucius Institute, University of Manchester; Confucius Institute, University of Liverpool; Confucius Institute, University of Newcastle; Confucius Institute, University of Lancaster; Aspers Casino, Newcastle; University of Leeds.

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE COMPANY

CAST & CREATIVES

BIOGRAPHIES

ABOUT THE PLAY

FROM SHORE TO SHORE

MORE FROM AURORA METRO

About On The Wire

On the Wire creates fresh, high quality theatre experiences in all sorts of spaces and places inspired by real stories that reflect contemporary Britain. People are at the heart of our activities; people whose voices and stories are not often heard. We believe that engaging with theatre can affect fundamental change and our productions aim to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.

Founded in 2017 by Deborah Dickinson and Mary Cooper, On the Wire aims to create theatre events and experiences in collaboration with artists, audiences and adventurers.

The Company

Cast

Matt Lim – Bob/Young Cheung Wing/Kwok Fu

Luna Dai – Yi Di/Kam Fa

Lucy Lan Luo – Ying/Teacher/Neighbour/Instructor/Singer/Waiter/Student

Alice Lee – Yi Di’s Mum/Grandma - Por Por/Cheung Wing’s Ma/Mei Lan’s Mum – O/S

Windson Liong – Yi Di’s Dad/Trader/Old Tyke/Doctor/Mei Lan’s Dad – O/

Michelle Yim – Mei Lan

Ozzie Yue – Cheung Wing

Creatives

Writer – Mary Cooper in collaboration with MW Sun

Director – David KS Tse

Designer – Pui Lee

Composer/Live Musician – Nicola Chang

Lighting Designer – Douglas Kuhrt

Stage Manager – Sabina Smith

Assistant Stage Manager – Kieran Sing

Events Manager – Sinman Yue

Social Media – Dee Lo

PR – Duncan Clarke

Producer – Deborah Dickinson

Biographies

OZZIE YUE

A British actor of Chinese descent, Ozzie has worked extensively, in TV, Film, Theatre and Radio since the early 1980’s and also as a musician since the 60’s. His many credits include: Film: Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman), Moonwalking in Chinatown (Soho Theatre), and as Kensuke in Michael Morpurgo’s critically acclaimed, Kensuke’s Kingdom (UK No1 tour). Ozzie’s musical career has spanned six decades as a guitarist and singer with ‘The Hideaways’ in the 60’s and ‘Supercharge’ (Virgin Records) in the 70’s and he holds the unofficial record for most appearances at Liverpool’s world famous Cavern Club. He still enjoys gigging with his band ‘Yue Who’.

MICHELLE YIM

Michelle trained at ALRA.

Theatre: An Evening with Miss Wong (Edfringe 2018); The Empress and Me (Adelaide Fringe 2018, Edfringe 2017); Taking Flight Festival 2017 (England Tour); DiaoChan: The Rise of the Courtesan (UK Tour); From Shore to Shore (Freedom Studios, Leeds); The Autumn of Han (UK Tour); Arrivals (NI tour); The King and I (Theatre at the Mill); The Translator (play-reading, Soho theatre) & Writers Pathway Project (play-readings, Octagon Bolton). She has also appeared in numerous short films and in small roles on TV (Sherlock & Blue Murder), and works as a voice over artist in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

LUNA DAI

Luna is a London-based actor. She was born in China and lived there for 19 years before her family moved to Canada. She enjoys travelling, food, classic novels, anime and theatre. Her life-long goal as an actor is to challenge people’s perceptions of women, gender roles, and Asian people. Theatre: Oberon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe, private showing), May, Fen (Corbett Theatre), Herbert Pocket, Great Expectations, Linda, Neaptide (Arcola Theatre), Old Nada, I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother (Tristian Bates Theatre), May, How To Be A Tree.

ALICE LEE

Alice Lee was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Australia and now lives in London. Even though she graduated with a Marketing degree she still found herself longing to become an actress. Despite her parents’ concerns, she embarked on acting training in Sydney and has since worked in theatre, TV and films across Hong Kong and the UK. She wrote and starred in Dragon Lady: Being Anna May Wong in 2008 and worked with True Heart Theatre in 2008-2010. Alice’s film credits include My Best Friend’s Wedding, Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda, Missing and Butterfly. She will also appear in Channel 4’s Foreigners in 2019.

MATT LIM

Matt Lim is a multi award-nominated actor, playwright and published author, originally from the West Midlands. He is Artistic Director of Punchline Theatre. Stage includes: Break of Noon (Finborough Theatre), Love in the Past Participle (The Other Palace), The Mentalist’s Book Club (Bush Theatre), BEAM 2018 Musical Showcase (Theatre Royal Straford East), Edward! (Westminster Abbey), Bodas de Sangre and Yerma (Barons Court Theatre), Way Back (Pleasance Theatre), 2 Complicated (Tour including Edinburgh Fringe and Barons Court Theatre). TV/Film includes BBC Doctors, 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover, LUCID: The Dreamwalker, The Confusion of Tongues.

WINDSON LIONG

Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore). Theatre: Chinglish (Park Theatre), O Deptford, Song Unsung, Dim Sum Nights (Yellow Earth Theatre), Hot Pants (Drama Centre Theatre Singapore), Miss Saigon (Malmö Opera), Jack and the Beanstalk, All Workers Go to Heaven, Takeaway (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole (Platform 65), Day I Met the Prince, The Wee Question Mark and the Adventurer, If There’re Seasons, I am Queen, Immortalx (The Theatre Practice), Rainbow Fish, Hop & Honk, Moonbird, Summer Swarm of Songs, You are Special (I Theatre), and Fugitive (Dramabox).

LUCY LAN LUO

Lucy was born in China, grew up in South Africa and moved to the UK aged 14. She did a Biochemistry degree at Imperial College London and is a recent graduate from Drama Studio London. She was one of the 2016 winners of the Creative Constellations Bursary awarded by Yellow Earth Theatre.

Theatre credits include: The Lonely Passion (Rehearsed Reading - National Theatre), Women of Twilight (New Diorama), This Changes Everything (New Diorama), The Reluctant Doctor (Edinburgh Fringe).

TV credits: Death Row Doctors, Crimewatch.

DIRECTOR – David K S Tse謝家聲

David read Law at University before training as an Actor (Rose Bruford), Director (Leicester Haymarket) and Screenwriter (Screen East, B3 Media). He was Founder-Artistic Director of yellowearth.org (YET) for 13 years and part-time Creative Director for CAS www. casuk.org commissioning a wide variety of British Chinese artists and artforms. Theatre directing credits include: Song Unsung (Southbank/UK tour); Piccadilly Revisited (Beijing/HK/LDN); Running the Silk Road (Barbican/UK tour); King Lear (RSC/Shanghai/UK tour); The Nightingale (HK Arts Festival/UK tour); Animal Farm (Denmark);