Press review – Typhoon II

Written by Dr. Ah Jeong Kim

Press review of Typhoon II: East Asian Playreading Festival (2003), written by Dr. Ah Jeong Kim. Published in The Korean Theatre Review. Article in Korean.

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

10-15 June, 2003

Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1

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