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Winter ELTea participants Warsaw, Jan 19th, 16:45 – 18:00
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In this warm & funny personal testimony, Veronica tracks her particular Hong Kong Eurasian-ness, weaving the strands of her life into a coherent, thoroughly entertaining storytelling performance, that touches all our stories of belonging & identity in the face of cross-cultural encounter. To the casual observer, Veronica Needa looks Caucasian, but underneath her European features dwells the soul of an old Chinese lady. Born in Hong Kong of Eurasian parents, she first came to Britain at the age of eighteen to study psychology. Here her Chinese identity became submerged in her new surroundings, barely visible but for her “cooking, burping and noisy eating”. “I welcome you and my ancestors for tea. It’s time to talk – about history, home, journeys here and there, and stories of dragons and dwarves. I will tell some of my stories, and perhaps you will tell me some of yours too” “我誠意歡迎您和我的祖先來茶聚，談談歷史、家、到處旅遊的經歷及關於龍仔與侏儒的故事。 The first FACE was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre for their Festival Now in 1998. It was developed in English with director Chris Harris in Bristol, and then reworked in Cantonese with director Tang Shu-wing, premiering in Hong Kong with great success. Since 1998 it has toured to schools, universities and arts centres, in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, and Singapore, in two language versions. The English version was presented in the UK by Yellow Earth Theatre as its ACE-funded tour in the Spring of 2001, with some performances in Cantonese in the Spring of 2005. FACE has now been published by the International Association of Theatre Critics (HK) in THE DRAMA AFTER: HK Drama 1998 in both English and Chinese, and also by the Hong Kong University Press - CITY STAGE: Hongkong Playwriting in English, in 2005. This 2007 FACE is newly edited with both languages integrated into a narrative text – hoping to entertain monolingual speakers of English and Cantonese at the same time and in the same space, sitting side by side.
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