Lantern

01 Jan 1970 to 01 Jan 1970

Event category: Live performance

Venue:

2 actors
9 characters
85 illuminating minutes

Chinese New Year's Eve is when families get together, eat like gluttons and sweep the house clean of any bad-luck issues before the New Year. Unfortunately for the Chen family, there are a lot of issues.

Henry is a broken man, consumed by memories of war and immigration.  His children Jen and Ken are still struggling to figure out who they are. And his wife Rose, who walked out of their lives a year ago, reappears just in time for dinner...

Written by New Zealand-Chinese playwright Renee Liang and featuring an all-Chinese cast, Lantern is not a play about being Asian, or even about being Kiwi-Asian. It's a play about what it means to be family.

Venue: BATS Theatre

Bookings: book@bats.co.nz or 04 802 4175

Tickets: $18/$13/$10 matinees