Follows life of widowed mother and her 2 children, Steve who lost his hearing at age 11 and Mimi who wants to leave the family and study architecture in Ontario. Language differences (Cantonese, English and ASL)create conflicts between the family members as they struggle to understand and communicate their needs and desires.
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Monologue for young woman and young man
contains scenes between East Asian man and woman
1995, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver
1996, 2009
Scirocco Press, Playwrights Canada Press.
9781896239071, 9780887547775
Included in Love Relasianships Vol. 1 edited by Nina Lee Aquino
Included in Love Relasianships Vol. 1 edited by Nina Lee Aquino
Stylized
Boys With Cars follows Naz, a classically trained Indian dancer, who dreams of getting out of small town Port Moody to attend the University of British Columbia. But when Buddy causes a stir over Naz at school, her university plans begin to crumble quickly.
Musical
Aisha n’ Ben examines aesthetic and cultural values through the relationship of an Indo-Canadian film actor, obsessed with skin whitening, and a dark-skinned Filipino-Canadian actor, who meet in Bombay while making a Bollywood film.
