February 2024

Lost in Shanghai on tour 2024

I’m delighted to be taking Lost in Shanghai, to ten theatres around Australia during our February-March 2024 tour.

Lost in Shanghai is my family story. It’s the story of my Mum, Beatrice, born in Shanghai in a mixed-race (Eurasian) family. All through my life, pieces of her story; the fragments she didn’t share, have come searching for me.

After leaving journalism in 2019, I finally put her story together, pitching it to the creative team at Contemporary Asian Australia Performance (CAAP). I was warned it may take a while for the idea to be developed into a work for theatre. I kept researching Mum’s story. During COVID, public libraries opened their digital archives so we could access them from home. As well as this, a treasure-trove of historic images came to light.

In mid 2021 I received news that Sydney Festival wanted this production ready for its 2022 season. The show was developed over Zoom with a talented group of creatives and our first in-person rehearsal took place shortly after distancing restrictions were lifted in Sydney.

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(Image credit: Greg Kung)