Interview with In-Sook Chappell – The playwright behind Helen Tse’s memoir Sweet Mandarin

As Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok arrives at Stratford Circus Arts Centre, playwright In-Sook Chappell describes the process behind adapting Helen Tse’s famous memoir Sweet Mandarin. How has your background as a playwright prepared you for Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok?  I think my background as a person rather than as a playwright prepared […]

The Dreams of Lily Kwok comes to Stratford Circus Arts Centre April 2018

A co-production with Yellow Earth Theatre and Royal Exchange Manchester, the adaptation of family memoir Sweet Mandarin will be the first major mid-scale tour of a British East Asian play. Black Theatre Live with Yellow Earth Theatre in association with Royal Exchange Theatre presents. Mountains – The Dreams of Lily Kwok, tells the extraordinary story of the three generations of […]

Thomas Gilbert Interview : The entrepreneur who will revolutionise the art market

LONDON — The Art & Finance market has made unprecedented development over the past few years, which has resulted in the financialisation of the art market. As financial-technology (or fintech) start-ups have been mushrooming, Thomas Gilbert, a British-born young entrepreneur has joined the force by introducing blockchain technology and distributing cryptocurrency to the vibrant but […]

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre at the Finborough Theatre

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre, as well as the first production at the Finborough Theatre building in its 150th anniversary year, the European premiere of Into the Numbers by multi-award-winning American playwright Christopher Chen opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 2 January 2018. In December 1937, in Nanking, then capital […]