Yesterday I met up with Phan Y Ly, the director of samestuff theatre. We had a good wide ranging discussion about our passions in theatre and what issues concern us about the Vietnamese community both here and overseas. Ly said that Overseas Vietnamese are in a time capsule caught up about 40-50 years ago, and [...]

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In Hanoi and so far it has been fantastic! I’m here as part of an asialink residency and have been teed up with the gioi publishing house. I met the director today and they were very nice and accomodating with some interesting questions. They were interested in overseas Vietnamese communities and said that they were [...]

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I’ve just been reading the above title and it’s worth reading for anyone interested in writing. It covers the seven basic plots that all stories are said to be derived from- and talks about the need to tell story and what drives it. In a badly paraphrased nutshell the drive to tell story is about [...]

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Been reading Kaja Silverman’s The Threshold of the Visible World which is about the look, the gaze and the development of self image- in particular when your mirror reflection does not reflect the ideal of white masculinity. This is for my thesis but it has intrigued me on a personal level as well. It was [...]

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My grandmother had a heart attack earlier this week- and it’s made me realised that she is mortal and that I need to hear her story soon before she passes away. This is my way of getting to know my grandmother I don’t speak Vietnamese and only know some of her stories through my father. [...]

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