Key visual – Signal Fires: Beyond Chinatown
Key visual for Signal Fires: Beyond Chinatown, designed by Anna Nguyen.
A British East and South East Asian guide to Manchester’s Past, Present & Future.
A fire burns to signal that we’re here. To show our numbers and celebrate our stories. To pass the torch from the past to the present, looking towards the future. British East and South East Asian artists of the North West are collaborating with New Earth Theatre to bring new perspectives to the streets of Manchester in a performance-led walking tour.
UK theatre touring companies join together in a time of crisis to return to the ‘original theatre’ – storytelling around fires – to celebrate our fundamental need as humans to gather, tell stories and make sense of the world around us, so that we can collectively reimagine the future.
This project includes new work written by: Houmi Miura, Chris Shapiro, Jasmine Chong, Mei Yuk Wong and Anna Nguyen, as well as an extract from In-Sook Chappell’s 2018 play Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok.
Finale devised by Yellow Earth Manchester Performers Academy:
Megan Arnold, Ivy Chui, Lesa Dang, Matthew Koon, Samuel Rossiter, Tina Wong.
Beyond Chinatown is produced by Grace Ng-Ralph, Anna Nguyen and Lian Wilkinson (Executive Producer, Yellow Earth Theatre), with dramaturgy by Naomi Sumner Chan and direction by Nickie Miles-Wildin and Kash Arshad.
A Yellow Earth Theatre, Yellow Earth Manchester Performers & Writers Academy, North West based British East & South East Asian Creatives partnership project, as part of Signal Fires.
With special thanks to Helen and Lisa Tse, Sam Jamil, Zachary Chia, Claryn Chong and Slung Low.
The production is supported by The Lowry.
Related Archives
→ Photographs – Signal Fires: Beyond Chinatown here
→ Production photographs – Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok here
→ The folder of set design – Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok here
→ Flyer – Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok here
→ Performance listing – Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok here