#News and #Updates…
… on upcoming productions and company developments.
Do check in every now and then to see what’s been going on…. and beyond that, get in touch and let’s connect.
I’ll be directing Daniel York Loh’s extraordinary new play The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience. This piece of gig theatre will run this summer at Soho Theatre, Dean St, from 21st June - 13th July. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Production image of The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience (design by Emilie Chen) with electronic guitar riffs played by Daniel York Loh.
A brilliant team of artists is joining me to build this visually explosive show, with original music by An-Ting, design by QianEr Jin and Erin Guan, lighting by Joe Price, performed by Melody Chikakane Brown, Aruhan Galieva and Daniel York Loh, Si Rowlinson for movement and Tobi Poster Su for material performance consultant. Produced by Natalie Chan. For full listing and more information click here.
A psychedelic punk rock riff on what path you choose, which identity politics you embrace or whether it’s easier to be a butterfly dreaming of being ‘Chinese’.
Semi-autobiographical, free-form and explosive, Daniel York Loh’s psychedelic gig-theatrical punk pop rap rock riff on what path to choose, which identity politics to embrace or whether it’s just easier to follow the ‘Dao’ of ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi and dream you’re a butterfly.
Or, be a butterfly dreaming of being ‘Chinese’….
The ‘British Chinese’
So often regarded as a ‘model minority’
Quiet, high-achieving, polite, invisible…
But when someone who is ‘British Chinese’ spends their life taking drugs, getting thrown out of school, claiming benefits, being chased in stolen cars, getting locked up, then rehabilitating onto the stage, where do they fit in?
Oh, and they’re not quite ‘Chinese’ enough anyway
Produced by Kakilang, supported by John Ellerman Foundation, Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts: a donor advised fund held at The London Community Foundation.
Pick Up Productions CIC
In 2021 Pick Up Productions was launched in London with the support of Arts Council England.
The performances of Storms & Voyages, the company’s first outings and meetings with audiences in different locations around London, were met with joy, participation and eagerness for more work.
Links to more information around the company and its work will be made available online soon.