Event | China | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW | |||||||||||||
Umbrella Event | 2008 Griffin Season & City of Sydney’s 2008 Chinese New Year | |||||||||||||
First Date | 15 January 2008 | |||||||||||||
Opening Date | 19 January 2008 | |||||||||||||
Last Date | 9 February 2008 | |||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
Status | Professional | |||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||
Description | "In his latest show, China, photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew, the Australian-born Chinese a stranger in his homeland."
Yang takes us from the streets of Beijing, where electronics superstores jostle with echoes of the Cultural Revolution and the Ming Dynasty, to the sacred mountain Huang Shan, a must-climb for every Chinese pilgrim-tourist; from a wild night in a Mongolian herdsman?s hut, to the apartments of ordinary Chinese, a few months after the Tiannamen incident. Yang?s wryly sensitive perspective, his eye for detail, and his arresting im |
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Description Source | Flyer/Poster | |||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
One Person Show
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Text Nationality | Australia
China |
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Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
Further Information | An umbrella event of City of Sydney's 2008 Chinese New Year Featival. | |||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 74105 | |||||||||||||
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