SCENES FROM A
YELLOW PERIL

BY NATHAN JOE

The trope of the demure, soft-spoken and subservient East Asian has long populated the Western imagination: the model minority, the submissive schoolgirl, the kung fu master, the maths nerd.

Taking a scalpel to these outdated and orientalist images, Scenes from a Yellow Peril violently smashes performance poetry, documentary theatre and political discourse together to create a kaleidoscopic vision of contemporary identity politics.

Written by Nathan Joe
Directed by Jane Yonge
Artwork by Kerry Ann Lee
Set & Costume Design by Micheal McCabe
Sound Designed and Performed by Kenji Iwamitsu-Holdaway
Dramaturged by Ahi Karunaharan
Performed by Nathan Joe, Amanda Grace Leo, Angela Zhang,
Chris Tse and Louise Jiang
Co-Produced by Ankita Singh (Oriental Maidens) & Sums Selvarajan in association with Oryza

THE CIVIC THEATRE
13 March 2021

Developed and presented as part of Auckland Arts Festival 2021 (Open Stage)
A view into the developmental process behind creating a play, playwright Nathan Joe and director Jane Yonge invite audiences to a rehearsed reading of scenes from their script, as well as a deeper dive into the core questions of the work through a post-reading discussion.