Press listing – Typhoon II

Press Listing for Typhoon II: East Asian Playreading Festival (2003). Published in Sing Tao Weekly. Article in Traditional Chinese.

Yellow Earth Theatre’s Typhoon is an international East Asian playreading festival. The second edition featured new works by emerging Asian and diasporic playwrights from Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia and the UK.

Eleven scripts were presented as staged readings in English, reflecting a wide range of cultural perspectives, themes and theatrical styles.

Full programme

• Fuyuhiko and the Good Luck Cat — Makino Nozomi; trans. Simon Piggott; dir. Kwong Loke
• Whatever That Is — Huzir Sulaiman
• Occupation — Huzir Sulaiman; dir. Anthony Clark
• Big Red and Little Tiger — Lucy Wang
• Leon and Clark — Lucy J Kim; dir. Erica Whyman
• Getting Married — Yi-Kang Baek; trans. Seoul City University’s English Drama Research Association
• Bicycle — Oh T’ae-sok; dir. Philippe Cherbonnier
• Three Fat Virgins Unassembled — Ovidia Yu
• Marsinah Accuses — Ratna Sarumpaet; trans. John H. McGlynn; dir. Karena Johnson
• 73A — Yat Yau; trans. Liame Tsang
• The Cat Who Ran — Toyoko Nishida, adapted from the children’s story by Naoko Kudo; trans. Yuriko Kobayashi