Wednesday Women’s Writing Collective present
Elevate Festival – Don’t Call Me China Doll
All Chinese do kung fu, right?
As she prepares for the audition of a lifetime—playing Anna May Wong in a biopic about Hollywood’s first East Asian starlet—China Doll must confront and untangle the ingénue’s legacy as she discovers astonishing parallels between them. Disdainful of Anna for perpetuating the stereotypes she still fights to overcome, China Doll wakes up to find herself magically transported to the 1930s in the body of the revered and reviled starlet. Over the course of several nights, she discovers profound similarities in the ways they navigate love, life, and identity as East Asian actors in the west.
Don’t Call Me China Doll is a one-woman show that explores the intricacies of internalised racism and self-worth. A compelling exploration of identity, discrimination , and progress, it prompts audiences to reflect on how and why East Asian artists still face the same barriers as they did a century ago.
Elevate Festival
This event is part of Elevate Festival, a week-long celebration of new work from South-West artists.
Barnfield TheatreThis performance contains some sexual content, themes around race and identity and the use of cigarettes which won't be lit.
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