Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹
On a hot clammy muggy day in October in a Chinese takeaway restaurant a decision was made:
Recommended by
Overview
A woman was going to take another woman’s baby.
She thought she was getting a chow mein and instead she got a baby.
Six months later
From the top floor of a hospital
Wrapped in blankets and snuggled away
A woman called Janice and a man called Phil
Took home a baby girl.
Me.
Based on the personal story of theatre-maker Jennifer Tang, who was born to Cantonese parents but raised by a white British family, this touching and highly theatrical new show asks what it really means to be British and Chinese in contemporary England, and how family, love and belonging all shape who and what we are.
Critic reviews
An energetic and humorous play about identity that still feels like an early draft
It’s so good to hear Cantonese onstage. So good. It reaches inside me and makes me clench my fists – but to just have that onstage, to just have the bodies onstage that look like my own isn’t really enough anymore
All over in an hour, full of ideas, energy and imagination, Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 is a terrific, thought-provoking show
Date & time
Venue
