Anna May Wong Must Die! pages:
Thanks to:
Anna Chen website links:
Anna's YouTube page - Madam Miaow productions for all of Anna's short movies
Masthead photos by Sukey Parnell Design: Anna Chen with help from Dave Bones based on website (c) Anna Chen 2009. All rights reserved.
|
Anna May Wong Must Die! DATES Check on dates for Anna Chen's new one-woman show, Anna May Wong Must Die!.
THURSDAY & SATURDAY 10 & 12 NOVEMBER 2011 New Diorama Theatre, London NW1
MONDAY 3RD MAY 2010 ANNA MAY WONG MUST DIE! Work continues apace. Anna will be reading the new opening for her show plus her short stories at the St Ives Literature Festival, St Ives Arts Club, 6.30pm, Monday 3rd May 2010. (Moved from Sunday 2nd)
SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2009 Anna performs Anna May Wong Must Die! at the St Ives Arts Cub, Westcotts Quay, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26, 7pm, as part of the St Ives Arts Festival. Tickets: £6.00 More Info: 01736 797122 steve.mcintosh@onestives.co.uk Venue: St Ives Arts Club, Westcotts Quay
TUESDAY 26TH MAY 2009 Film critic Jasper Sharp, of the website Midnight Eye, introduces a screening of Piccadilly (1929), her best known British film, as part of an Anna May Wong themed night at the Roxy. Writer and performer Anna Chen presents an extract from Anna May Wong Must Die!, a personal journey through the life and crimes of the Hollywood screen legend and a multimedia illustrated reorientation of Anna May Wong. Extending her recent BBC Radio 4 profile of the actress, A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, Anna reveals how Wong and the Chinese were depicted in films and what they were up against during Yellow Peril fever in this personal appreciation of the world’s first Chinese movie star. Shanghai sounds from Resonance FM Lucky Cat DJ, Zoe Baxter Drinks provided by the Akashi Sake Brewery. Entry £4, cash on the door only. 26 May 2009 at 19:00
FRIDAY 8TH MAY 2009 Anna May Wong Must Die!, a personal journey through the life and crimes of the Hollywood screen legend, has its preview at The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives in Cornwall this Friday 8th May at 7pm. £6. Part of the St Ives Literary Festival To see a video extract of the preview show, click here
TUESDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2009 Had a great time hosting the weekly Lucky Cat hour at Resonance 104.4FMthis evening thanks to my guests Merlene Emerson and Jasper Sharp, and Zoe Baxter who invited me along and drove the desk. I talked about a range of topics from Anna May Wong — including material I didn’t have time to cover in my recent Radio 4 profile of the Hollywood legend — to the 5th anniversary of the Morecambe Bay disaster when 23 Chinese cocklepickers died in icy waters off the north east coast of England. My guests were Jasper Sharp — east Asian film expert — and Merlene Emerson who has helped raise funds for the victims' families and campaigns on migrants rights in the UK.
TUESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2009 Anna May Wong: A Celestial Star In Piccadilly
MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009 Anna's article about Anna May Wong and her time in England where she made Piccadilly (1929) This was Anna May's last silent movie and her most highly acclaimed. Written to accompany Anna's BBC radio programme about Anna May Wong, A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, which introduced the forgotten Hollywood legend to a new generation of radio audiences.
TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2008 Anna's review and analysis of The Good Earth, the 1937 Hollywood blockbuster based on Pearl S Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Anna May Wong lobbies hard for the starring role of O-Lan, the wife, but as soon as a caucasian actor, Paul Muni, is cast as the husband, miscegenation rules means her efforts are doomed. The role goes instead to Swedish actress Luise Rainer who gets the Oscar.
2007/2008: BBC commissions Anna’s proposal for A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, a profile of Anna May Wong, focusing on the making of her last silent film, Piccadilly.
2005: BBC turns down Anna’s first attempt to make a programme on Anna May Wong in time for her birth centenary in 2005.
TUESDAY JUNE 2004 Anna and photographer Sukey Parnell create a tribute to Hollywood legend Anna May Wong for her centenary in 2005. Photograph here.
|
|||||
|
||||||