Photo: John Rata
Heart-wrenching, clever and funny, family drama How To Throw A Chinese Funeral by Ji Lian (Jill) Kwan has won this year's Asian Ink, Playmarket’s script writing competition, where the winners undergo further workshop development.
Photo: John Rata
Jill acknowledged the two year anniversary of her Grandmother’s passing, and the one year anniversary of the live playreading with PAT in receiving the prestigious award.
“I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge Renee Liang, Ahi Karunaharan and PAT - Proudly Asian Theatre for their generosity, invaluable advice, and time (including one emergency charger delivery on the due date) - without which I literally would not have been able to do this.” - Ji Lian (Jill) Kwan
Fresh off the Page, the playreading initiative that helped How To Throw A Chinese Funeral develop, was set to re-launch late in 2021 before the Delta variant put Auckland into lockdown. PAT hopes to continue developing new works through this platform and has plans to deliver the rest of the programme if restrictions lift in 2021.
Congratulations Jill, from the team at PAT!