Excellent New Double Bill Production from the UK’s Yellow Earth Theatre

The UK-based East Asian and award-winning company Yellow Earth Theatre have just announced the dates for the UK tour of Typhoon Live.

This is the UK and European premiere of a double-bill of short plays by two of East Asia’s most exciting playwrights. Getting Married and Dogs, two plays about falling in love… and falling out again opens at the Oxford Playhouse on 25th September and finishes in London at the Oval House Theatre on the 13th October.

Well worth seeing if you can get to any of the shows in the UK Tour! More information and the production flyer below:

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Getting Married by Yi Kang-baek
Directed by Phillippe Cherbonnier

Dogs by Elangovan
Directed by Kwong Loke

Cast – Andy Cheung, Jamie Zubairi, Liz Sutherland
Getting Married is a light-hearted one-act play exploring the sweet and touching absurdity of the beginning of a love affair. A young man, a swindler by trade, borrows a grand house for the weekend and a suit for the day, to impress a charming and innocent young woman. As their courtship unfolds, the house’s stern and silent butler starts to reclaim the possessions the young man claims as his own, and we are left to enjoy a contest between love and dishonesty.

The production is written by Yi Kang-baek, one of Korea’s most prominent dramatists since the 1970s. He won the Daesan Award for Drama in 1996. The director Philippe Cherbonnier is Yellow Earth’s Literary Associate who runs the company’s scheme to nurture, develop and promote British East Asian writers.

In direct contrast, Dogs is a savage but funny play from Singapore, which tells the tale of what happens when a woman prefers her dog to her loser of a husband. This rollercoaster of resentment, disappointments and hatred is full of foul-mouthed humour, but has a dark and disturbing ending which leaves the audience breathless and stunned. Dogs is directed by Kwong Loke (Malaysia) who is Yellow Earth Theatre’s Artistic Associate and foremost among an emerging group of vibrant and exciting British East Asian directors working with Yellow Earth.

Singaporean writer Elangovan is a prolific poet and dramatist. His drama is confrontational and questions the accepted wisdom of society in Singapore, and through its exploration of universals, the rest of the world. His plays have won the Singapore International Award twice and he received the 1997 South-East Asian Writer’s Award for his lifetime contribution to the theatre.

Cast members Jamie Zubari and Liz Sutherland were both recently seen in The Letter in the West End and most recently Andy Cheung appeared in Nixon In China at The London Coliseum.

For more information on dates and venues, see the Yellow Earth Theatre Calendar.

Yellow Earth Theatre was founded by five East Asian performers in 1995. The company produces work that explores universal themes from an East Asian perspective, celebrating cultural diversity through an integration of theatre skills from the East and the West.

Visit the Yellow Earth Theatre website