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RENNEE LIANG |
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Nationality: New Zealander Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Renee Liang is a poet, playwright, paediatrician and fiction writer. She is involved in organising community arts events such as artistic blind-dating initiative Metonymy and Funky Oriental Beats (FOB), a platform for Kiwi-Asian performing artists. She is a regular contributor to The Big Idea, a website linking NZ's arts community. In her own writing, Renee has been published in the New Zealand Listener, JAAM, Blackmail Press, Tongue in your Ear, Sidestream and Magazine. Following the success of her 2009 play "Lantern", in September 2011 she will be premiering "The First Asian AB" in Auckland, then touring to Wellington as part of the 'rugby' season at BATS theatre. The Bone Feeder also premieres in Auckland as a professional production in November 2011. For her activities in arts, medicine and science, Renee was named a 2010 Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader.
Plays by Rennee Liang
Bone Feeder, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | TAPAC - The Auckland Performing Arts Centre, Auckland | 10 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | O.CO | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133846 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1902, the SS Ventnor sank in the Hokianga Harbour with the bones of 499 Chinese miners bound for ancestral graves in Canton. A century later Ben, a young man, arrives in the Far North to try to find some link with his past. A new NZ play which draws on the traditions of Asian storytelling, The Bone Feeder is a sumptuous professional theatre production which uses a cast of 19 performers, live music, high-wire martial arts, dance, drama and comedy to tell this story of one of the first times of contact between NZ Chinese and Maori. The Bone Feeder is a fictional exploration of what is for many Chinese New Zealanders a very real and significant piece of their history. The story of the SS Ventnor, chartered in 1902 by the Shin Tong Association to carry the exhumed bodies of immigrant Chinese back to their home villages, is one which carries emotional weight for the many NZ Chinese who lost family members in the shipwreck, and for the local Maori families who found bones washed up on the coast. | |||||
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First Asian A* B*, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Basement Theatre, Auckland | 13 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Proudly Part of the 2011 Real NZ Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132185 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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Synopsis: | Willy's a homestay Asian student. Mook's Samoan and he's been here for ages. They're best mates at Timaru Boys High. But when Willy decides his dream is to try out for the All Blacks, mateship - and everything else - is up for grabs. A warm feel-good comedy with serious undertones, The First Asian A* B*examines the question what makes someone Kiwi?' Is it rugby, racing and beer or being true to oneself and one's friends? | |||||
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