True Heart Theatre 真心劇團 - giving voice to London's Chinese community

Various speakers

Registration

Abstract

True Heart Theatre 真心劇團 was born in 2006 from a group of Chinese overseas students living in London, who came together to tell stories of their experience of living in the UK; and also stories about missing their home in Asia. Using the method of Playback Theatre, where audience experiences are improvisationally performed by the group as a form of group and individual reflection of lived experience, they serve many Chinese community groups within the UK, especially London, generating a shared community consciousness and care.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the True Heart Theatre will be giving a presentation on their foundations, and will also give an interactive and improvisational performance for SOAS Library's Hidden Histories webinar series.

Panellists

• Veronica Needa (Founder)
• Agnes Law (Honorary Director)
• Valentina Wong (Honorary Assistant Director)

Performing ensemble

• Andrea Lowry
• Andy Yau
• Anisha Pucadyil
• Candy Ma
• Ferran Luengo
• Karen Kiefer

Panellists and performing ensemble biographies

Registration

This webinar will take place online via Zoom. Click here to register .

Photo credit: True Heart Theatre

Organiser: SOAS Library Decolonising Working Group

Contact email: lp27@soas.ac.uk