Yang Sing restaurant, Manchester
This rich, dreamlike play feeds body and soul as it chronicles the complex lives of migrants from China
Cheung Wing is looking back over his life. He’s been through tough times but, with a Buddhist sense of acceptance, bears no malice. Played by a stately Ozzie Yue, he is at the placid heart of a play full of movement. “I know what it’s like to be starving,” he says. “I know what it’s like to be fed.”
From famine to feast, this is a play that puts food at the centre of the Chinese migrant experience. Written by Mary Cooper with MW Sun, From Shore to Shore tells three stories that connect the city of Leeds with China and Hong Kong and, one way or another, food plays a pivotal role. It’s in the welcoming bowl of soup offered to a stranger; it’s in the fantasy of a hungry boy displaced by war and dreaming of dumplings; and it’s in the takeaways where so many families have put down roots in the UK.
At Yang Sing restaurant, Manchester, until 16 March. Touring until 4 April.
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