Shuyan is your typical Chinese single child in her early 20s – privileged, but under mountain-high expectations, book smart but feeling uninspired. Everything falls apart when Shuyan struggles to finish her PhD application. Confronted by her parents’ big existential question- ‘What do you really want?’ she chose to run away from home and hide elsewhere. Can she find her answers there?
Combining elements of shadow puppetry, dark fairytales, comedy and magical realism, Elsewhere在别处 is a quirky, sometimes comical, sometimes touching show about an individual’s search for purpose in the backdrop of the world’s second superpower: China.
PRODUCED by Out of the Blue Theatre Company
WRITTEN & PERFORMED by Haylin Cai
CO-DIRECTOR: Robin Khor
PRODUCERS: Amy Sze and Maki Li
ASSISTANT PRODUCER: Chenxing Liu
STAGE MANAGER: Camila Hoyos Stuttle
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Emma-May Uden
PUPPETRY CONSULTANT: Fagner Gastaldon
SCENOGRAPHER: Agnes Yeung
With the help of Christie Zhao, Marian Lee, Yang Bai, Amy Gwilliam, Marcos Brito, Saveriano Paoli and Purple Moon Drama Project Platform
"Our children live in the most deprived ward in London and their parents cannot afford to pay for the classes and activities many more privileged children enjoy after school and at the weekends. A free-to-access youth group run by a local theatre in a professional setting is an incredible opportunity."
Local school teacher
