an inconvenient protest :(
I have some sad news to share with everyone… the opening in Chengdu of my new play, “Lethal English” has been postponed (until late April or May) due to the current situation in the western region of China. I don’t want to go into detail, suffice it to say that I was first recommended to postpone the show, and then I got a phone call last night warning me that the material in the play was too sensitive for the area right now.
A nice reminder that I live in China.
That, and the fact that gmail isn’t working, most news websites are only partially viewable, and that my email has stopped coming into my personal inbox (thank ye gods for proxy servers!)
Personally, I blame Bjork and her ill-timed concert protest. (That, and the British, I mean, they’re to blame for everything, right?)
18. March, 2008 at 02:50
if you can’t use gmail,you can try this URL: https://www.gmail.com
18. March, 2008 at 03:16
谢谢su
(you’re my hero!)
18. March, 2008 at 07:24
thanks for th gmail tip!
but REALLY interested in seeing ‘Lethal English’- PLEASE let me know the chengdu dates and venue when they get redecided.
hard to find things out here in advance (the du)
thanks
19. March, 2008 at 07:05
Obviously the government wants to keep us from having to experience Ribbons’ work (trite at best), for which we should only thank them.
19. March, 2008 at 13:24
Well dang. It’s amazing that I’m in any way (even indirectly) impacted by something so far away. What was the play supposed to be about?
Also, if you can get on facebook, my blog is cross-posting there now:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561994084
Hugs hugs, all the way from the other side of the world.
19. March, 2008 at 19:31
@anon: alas, only the people of Chengdu have been saved from my trite-at-best play, the folks of Beijing will still have to suffer through it…
@Pam: the play is a police-drama dime novel thriller, its a short play (only an hour) but very fast paced. Maybe you’ll see it when I bring it to Boston some day
20. March, 2008 at 11:31
“due to the current situation in the western region of China.”
Surely you mean the eastern region of Tibet?
20. March, 2008 at 18:22
Actually, I was referring to the T-related incidents in Chengdu, Gansu and Yunnan. But yes, there’s also the other area too