The Late Wedding

The Late Wedding

Tue 23rd Feb 2016

Playwrights Beyond Borders celebrate's London’s multicultural riches through the craft of the playwright.

Showcasing the work of seven playwrights from transcultural backgrounds, the brand new Theatre Royal Stratford East Studio, will transform into an international space in the heart of London’s East End, where theatre, music and community overcome all borders.  

THE LATE WEDDING by Christopher Chen

An anthropological tour of imagined tribes and their marital customs. A search for a long lost love. A grocery list? Inspired by the writings of Italian fabulist novelist Italo Calvino, Christopher Chen enlists his own unreliable narrators to take us on a kaleidoscopic, mind-bending, and ultimately luminous journey of the soul.

"beguiling and relentlessly inventive…another of Chen’s slyly metatheatrical, blissfully funny, whiplash-smart creations." – San Francisco Gate

About Christopher Chen

Full Festival Schedule

Monday 22 February - BRAINPEOPLE  by Oscar nominated playwright Jose Rivera (Puerto Rican)

Tuesday 23 February - THE LATE WEDDING  by Christopher Chen (Chinese-American)

Wednesday 24 February - DIAGRAM OF A PAPER AIRPLANE  by Carlos Murillo (Colombian-American)

Thursday 25 February  - DREAMS OF HOME  by Migdalia Cruz (Puerto Rican)

Friday 26 February - THE BALLAD OF THE LOST DOGS  by Christine Evans (Canadian-Australian)

Saturday 27 February  -  A HUMAN INTEREST STORY (OR THE GORY DETAILS AND ALL)  by Carlos Murillo (Colombian-American)

Sunday 28 February - THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY  by Matthew Paul Olmos (Mexican-American)  

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