A multimedia performance that explores the world of North American Chinese shopping malls is coming to Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
No Foreigners, a co-production of theatre companies Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) and fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto), is onstage at the Shadbolt Centre from Oct. 9 to 12.
A write-up about the show notes it meditates on North American Chinese shopping malls as “spaces of cultural creation and clash.”
“Multiple storylines begin in a mall and quickly diverge – catapulting us across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, through past, present and future,” the write-up says.
The show weaves together text, miniatures, digital backdrops and live cameras as it examines our changing relationships to social spaces.
No Foreigners was originally commissioned in 2018 by Theatre Conspiracy of Vancouver and was created with residency and development support from Shadbolt Centre, the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, and Carleton University Art Gallery’s Open Space Lab in Ottawa.
It’s coming to Burnaby off a tour that included runs in Toronto and Winnipeg.
It’s onstage in the Studio Theatre at Shadbolt Centre, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., from Wednesday, Oct. 9 to Saturday, Oct. 12, with shows at 8 p.m. nightly. For tickets, see tickets.shadboltcentre.com or call 604-205-3000.
