Shopping malls become a portal into surreal worlds that carry the nuanced stories of loss and resilience from the Chinese diaspora.
No Foreigners is a multimedia performance that meditates on North American Chinese shopping malls as spaces of cultural creation and clash. Multiple storylines begin in a mall and quickly diverge—catapulting us across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, through past, present, and future.
Weaving together text, miniatures, digital backdrops and live cameras, No Foreigners examines our changing relationships to these social spaces and the histories, characters, experiences, and ephemera that keep inviting us back.
A collaboration between ground-breaking Vancouver interdisciplinary super group Hong Kong Exile and Governor General’s award-winning playwright David Yee of fu-GEN Theatre.
“...an interdisciplinary innovative wonder … a nuanced, layered and exceedingly clever look at the diasporic experience.”
– Globe & Mail
Running for 3-shows only on the Prairie Theatre Exchange Mainstage from Sept 12-14 at 7:30 pm as part of the Leap Series.
Featuring April Leung and Derek Chan
Written by David Yee
Directed by Milton Lim
PTE is on Treaty 1 Land, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Oji-Cree and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
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