Anna Chen – Yellowface
Watch a video of Anna Chen performing her poem Yellowface, which satirises and reappropriates this practice of racial stereotyping.
Anna Chen – Yellowface
The Orphan of Zhao Redux
This specially commissioned video, The Orphan of Zhao Redux, features an all-British East Asian cast, performing a hybrid text edited and compiled by Daniel York.
Interventions 24.3 (July 2014)
Alongside our special issue on ‘Dealing with Martin Crimp’, these online Interventions complement and extend the discussion in the print journal.
Composition as Textual Illumination: Martin Crimp and George Benjamin Discuss Written on Skin
Watch a video of Martin Crimp in conversation with composer George Benjamin about their collaboration on the 2012 opera Written on Skin.
Sounding Crimp’s Verbal Stage: The Translator’s Challenge
Elisabeth Angel-Perez, who contributes a longer article to the special issue, reflects on the challenges of translating Crimp’s world where ‘acts of language are all there is to “see”‘.
Writer or Director? The Case of Martin Crimp
Aleks Sierz, author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp, challenges the binary opposition of writer and director in Crimp’s work.
Keeping it Real: Stories and the Telling of Stories at the Royal Court
Dan Rebellato teases apart the reputation for realism at the Royal Court, where many of Crimp’s plays have premiered.