No Foreigners

2018

No Foreigners is a multimedia performance that meditates on North American Chinese shopping malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash. Several original stories begin in a mall and quickly diverge—catapulting across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, and through past, present, and future.

Through live performance and a micro-to-macro camera apparatus, No Foreigners weaves together text, miniatures, and media design as it attempts to unpack what is at the heart of “Chineseness” and what the future can hold for all of us as visitors and settlers.

Duration: 90 min.

HKX PROJECT LEAD  Milton Lim

fu-GEN PROJECT LEAD  David Yee

CREATED BY  Hong Kong Exile + fu-GEN Theatre

PERFORMED & CO-CREATED BY  April Leung + Derek Chan

DIRECTED BY Milton Lim

TEXT BY  David Yee

MINIATURE DESIGN  BY Natalie Tin Yin Gan w/ April Leung + Derek Chan

MEDIA APPARATUS DESIGN BY Remy Siu

PROJECTION AND SOUND DESIGN BY Milton Lim + Remy Siu

CANTONESE TRANSLATION BY  Derek Chan

SUPPORTED BY Theatre Conspiracy, Gateway Theatre, Carlton University Art Gallery, City of Vancouver, British Columbia Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts

PRESENTED BY Gateway Theatre, Carlton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), The Cultch, Theatre Centre (Toronto)

PRESS

The Georgia Straight  No Foreigners is crammed with innovations and ideas about identity
The Star  A playwright walked into a Chinese food court. That was the start of the multimedia show No Foreigners
CBC News  No Foreigners a theatrical study of Chinese malls in Canada
Rabble.ca  ‘No Foreigners’ makes the Chinese mall a multimedia cultural experience
Now Toronto  No Foreigners is visually intriguing but could use a director
The Georgia Straight  Hong Kong Exile’s theatre piece No Foreigners mines mall culture and Chinese identity