CPC Barbie

A Play in One Act: I’m a good Chinese girl in a communist world, do my part, praise for Mao, I’m your comrade. Separated by generations under Chinese communist rule and migration, but united by struggle: marionettes, Barbies and Eminem come together to express the angst and futile struggle of being a good Chinese woman. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, YEAH, BITE ME. 

Upcoming:

Next Stage Festival (Digital Production) - October 2025 - PNSNV, directed by Miquelon Rodriguez

Development History:

Workshop Reading - with space in-kind from Theatre Passe Muraille, directed by Philip Geller - April 2023

Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create, Research and Creation Grant (2022), design in collaboration with Maryanna Chan

OAC Recommender Grant (2021-2022) - fu-GEN Theatre Company, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Canadian Stage

Development with Major Matt Mason Collective, dramaturgy by Jenna Rodgers

Developed for the National Theatre School of Canada, dramaturgy by Andrea Romaldi, assistant dramaturgy by Caroline Aki Matsushita Guertin - culminating in workshop reading - March 2021

Awards

First Prize - Wildfire National Playwriting Competition - Major Matt Mason Collective