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Max Percy + Friends presents ‘I Dream in Colour’ by Jasmine Thien, an autobiographical one-woman play exploring memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and immigrant culture, drawn from Jasmin’s experiences growing up fighting eye cancer and eventually blindness as a Bruneian-born Chinese.
“When fighting for survival is who you are as a people, you can’t afford to be broken... ”
In a hospital waiting room, Jasmin is preparing for a surgery she has wanted all her life: the enucleation (removal) of her remaining eye. The eye containing a dormant tumour. The eye her parents fought so hard to keep for as long as she can remember. Removing this eye may mean letting go of her parents’ desperate battle with eye cancer, and the trauma of growing up in a community that is vicious towards the disabled. It may mean finally forgiving herself and her family for a condition their culture labels a curse.
Combining elements of storytelling, poetry and comedy, interwoven with voices from the past, present and future, I Dream in Colour portrays an unapologetically raw and frequently joyful exploration of what it means to be disabled in a Chinese immigrant community while celebrating what the community has to offer.
Developed with the generous support of Camden People's Theatre, Extant, Arts Council England and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Great theatre, lovely young team, brilliant supportive diverse programming, the only theatre I can think of that is currently supporting so many theatremakers.
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