THEATRE
愿绝望越深厚，愿愤怒越旺盛。
May despair sink ever deeper;
May anger rise ever brighter.
SALESMAN IN CHINA
By Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy
Suggested by the memoirs of Arthur Miller and Ying Ruocheng
Chinese Translations by Fang Zhang
Directed by Jovanni Sy
Assistant Director: Nick Fangzheng Wang
January 16-25, 2025, at the National Arts Centre
August 3 - October 27, 2024, at Stratford Festival
A new work workshop.
May 23th-26th, 2024
Motel Theatre at Arts Commons, Calgary
Part of Simon Mallett New Work Program at Downstage.
To explore new storytelling of Chinese-Canadian immigration history by combining the narratives with ancient Chinese mythologies
A new surrealist dream piece by Billy Kairan Guo.
Aug. 5th-11th, 2023
Alexandra Dance Hall, at Calgary Fringe 2023
Travelling through time and space, disasters and regrets, seeking a lost heart and a lost visa before we forget.
A reflection of the past pandemic.
-Louis B. Hobson
by Xuanyi Hu. Feb. 12-18, 2023
Baby Grand Theatre at Kingston Grand Theatre
Mandarin with English Surtitles
Co-presented by Yu Theatre Society and Yu Stage Toronto
Striving to provide a framework for how individuals recognize and talk about a disaster when they have never experienced it before.
World Premiere.
by Gao Xingjian. Nov. 26th – Dec. 4th, 2021
Reeve Theatre at the University of Calgary; English with Mandarin Surtitles.
A thesis production.
A reinterpretation of a 1980s Chinese play, striving to identify its universal significance from the political context. It embraced the human beings' shared suffering and celebrated the willingness to take action.
by Edward Albee. Mar. 9th -10th, 2021
Reeve Theatre at the University of Calgary
A student production.
The significance was the adaptation of the bench, which is a seesaw now due to the COVID-19 protocol.
An adaptation of Cao Yu’s Thunderstorm. Jan. 10th – 19th, 2020
The Baby Grand, Kingston Grand Theatre; Mandarin with English Surtitles
We are all yearning for a festival where all the suffering ends and all the wishes come true.
by Liao Yimei. Mar. 14th – 17th, 2019
Studio Theatre in Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts; Mandarin with English Surtitles.
Puppetry and singalong.
Regarded as the Chinese Bible of Love, the story has to be told whenever it is needed. Paranoia is a philosophy of life.
