Michelle Law is a writer with experience in journalism, screenwriting and playwriting. It’s irreverent, it’s heartfelt, and it has a cast of fabulous women (plus the perennial Charles Wu). ![]() Her Single Asian Female lit up Belvoir with its exuberance and its loving portrait of family. Michelle Law has an unerring nose for a fabulous comic premise, and she’s a naturalborn entertainer. ![]() Join us at the theatre for an evening of laughter, tears, and pageantry! – Michelle Law Miss Peony will be performed in English, Cantonese and Mandarin (with surtitles in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese), making it inclusive for multilingual friends and family members. Third time’s a charm, right! This year we’ll be touring our debut season, bringing all of the glitz, glamour and ghostliness of Miss Peony to cities across the east coast of Australia. I’m so excited to finally be sharing Miss Peony with Australia after two false starts due to Covid. Glitzy and madcap, Miss Peony is a bold new comedy about our good old need for connection – to family, the past, the future, each other.Īnd for the first time ever we’re offering a show in three languages: as in real life, these characters switch between English, Cantonese and Mandarin, so the show is surtitled in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. So Poh Poh pushes Lily into entering the highly competitive Miss Peony, and no matter how hard Lily tries to wriggle out of it, her grandma won’t take no for an answer.Īnd to make matters worse, she’s a ghost. ![]() She sees a granddaughter caught between worlds. She doesn’t care that times have changed, that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. A comedy of beauty pageants, unrealistic expectations, and the business of family.
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