For Immediate Release: August 20, 1999
What do you call the place in between the history you are born into and the history you create for yourself?
Other Women
A Rumble Production
Presented at the 1999 Vancouver Fringe Festival (September 9-19)
Having cheated on her white husband with an Asian man, a half-Chinese woman flees to the vacant home of her grandparents Wong.
Thirty years earlier, in the same house, an immigrant couple's life is disrupted when the man's first wife unexpectedly arrives from China...and moves in.
I need to discover a new continent...
Other Women, by emerging playwright Adrienne Wong, explores the territory of in-betweens, and investigates the peculiar displacement that can occur for those who straddle two cultures. This is theatre as magical storytelling. Culture. Identity. Betrayal. Love.
...there is a history of "other" women in this family...
Rumble Productions - Vancouver's all terrain theatre vehicle - creates challenging, interdisciplinary work that investigates the tensions between public history and private experience. In Other Women - our 1999/2000 season opener - rich poetry, family anecdotes, historical research and sensuous physicality are woven together in an intricate web of memories and fantasies, half-truths and possibilities.
Other Women is being performed at the FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE as part of the 1999 Vancouver Fringe Festival.
Friday, September 10 @ 3:30pm
Sunday, September 12 @ 9:00pm
Tuesday, September 14 @ 5:00pm
Wednesday, September 15 @ 7:15pm
Thursday, September 16 @ 10:45 pm
Saturday, September 18 @ 5:45pm
...these words are not just in your ears, they're in your bones.