Fresh off the Page 2017

Ka-Shue (Letters Home)

By Lynda Chanwai-Earle

"Good luck, is what you need. A lot of it. How I suppose to get you out? Not even Kuomintang save us now."

Leaping across two continents and three generations leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Lynda Chanwai-Earle's semi-autobiographical solo show Ka-Shue was the first authentically New Zealand–Chinese play for mainstream audiences. For our last reading of 2017 we celebrated one of New Zealand's pioneer Asian dramatists.


Directed by Chye-Ling Huang and

Written by Lynda Chanwai-Earle

Photography: Hen Huang

starring

Xana Tang

Marianne Infante