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.