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RENNEE LIANG
Nationality: New Zealander
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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.
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Bone Feeder, The First Asian A* B*, The Lantern Under The Same MoonBone Feeder, The
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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1st Produced:
Tapac - The Auckland Performing Arts Centre, Auckland 10 Nov 2011
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O.CO
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Play/Drama
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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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1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Auckland 13 Sep 2011
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Proudly Part of the 2011 Real NZ Festival
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Genre:
comedy
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: musicians
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Synopsis:
Chinese New Year is the time to get together as a family, settle old scores and wipe the slates clean. But this year, for the Chens, there's one thing missing. . .. It's been one year since Rose left, walking away from her husband Henry, their online-dating-obsessed daughter, Jen, and their hopeless son, Ken. As their yearly family dinner draws closer and with a years' worth of tension brewing, the stakes are higher than ever as the family's flame begins to flicker. Will the New Year provide a fresh start for the Chens? And if so, will the family ever be the same again? . Set in modern day Auckland, two actors play ten characters in a play that ignites the burning question all New Zealanders confront; where do I belong? - http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3611.
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1st Produced:
Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre, Auckland 10 Feb 2014
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Pretty Asian Theatre as part of the 2014 Auckland Lantern Festival
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Though we are a thousand leagues apart, we all look on the same moon. - Tang Dynasty poem Por Por Grace, an elderly woman from Hong Kong, embarks on the trip of a lifetime - a visit to New Zealand to attend the wedding of her granddaughter. Unfortunately she hasn't been invited and no one knows she's coming until she slips her caregivers and turns up in Wellington. Her presence throws some knots into an already fraught time for her family& Her daughter, Lorna, has been living in NZ for over 20 years. Outwardly the dutiful daughter who has made sure her mother is well provided for, Lorna finds Por Por's arrival incredibly inconvenient. How can she assume her new role as family matriarch when her own mother is there, reminding her to go to the toilet? And there's the niggling worry that Por Por has advancing dementia. Lorna's three daughters, meanwhile, engage with their grandmother in different ways. Stella, the oldest and without a partner after a series of disastrous relationships, wishes for a child. Sarah, the middle child who's getting married, struggles with her mother's disapproval of her fiancee, her job, everything about her life, really. And Stephanie, the youngest, has always been withdrawn and non communicative - until Por Por comes along. Meanwhile, freed of her carers, Por Por's out to discover the world. Or at least NZ. That's quite a cultural place isn't it? What better way to discover it than by joining a Kiwi Experience backpacker bus tour? Unfortunately her understanding of cultural norms is a little... off. She's returned by the police to her family just in time for the ceremony. But then fate throws another of its curveballs - and the family are reminded once again of the joy, heartbreak and mystery of life. A heartfelt comedy about daughters and their wayward mothers.
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1st Produced:
Bats Theatre, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington 10 Feb 2015
Organisations:
Omphalos Co
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Genre:
comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4291
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