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Event China
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
Description Source Flyer/Poster
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre One Person Show
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
William Yang Actor
Nicholas Ng Musician
William Yang Writer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
China
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information An umbrella event of City of Sydney's 2008 Chinese New Year Featival.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web Performing Lines Website
Newspaper
Event Identifier 74105
Dataset AusStage