Yellow Earth History and Future
Yellow Earth was established in 1995 by five British East Asian performers with the aim of raising the profile and standing of British East Asian theatre. The company has won many awards including the Pearl Award for Creative Endeavour (2004), the Windrush Award (Arts Achievement Award to David Tse Ka-shing, 2004) and Sainsbury’s Checkout Theatre Award (1999). Yellow Earth was established in 1995 by five British East Asian performers with the aim of raising the profile and standing of British East Asian theatre. The company has won many awards including the Pearl Award for Creative Endeavour (2004), the Windrush Award (Arts Achievement Award to David Tse Ka-shing, 2004) and Sainsbury’s Checkout Theatre Award (1999).David Tse Ka-Shing steps down in December 2008 after 13 years as Artistic Director and one of the Founder Members. A key artistic partner in the first six years was Tom Wu (Movement Director), who enabled a body of work to be created that explored East Asian physical theatre. The other Founder Members, Kumiko Mendl, Veronica Needa and Kwong Loke, were joined by Philippe Cherbonnier, Literary Associate, marking a shift towards East Asian text and new writing, while retaining a keen interest in East Asian physical theatre.
Yellow Earth now regularly produces British East Asian work that uses multimedia, East Asian physical theatre and bilingual text. Its audiences are diverse and attract a relatively large percentage of British East Asians. Yellow Earth is the UK’s flagship British East Asian national touring theatre company, revenue funded by Arts Council England (London). Yellow Earth produces touring productions which have found an international market and runs the UK’s only international East Asian play reading festival and training schemes for emerging East Asian writers, directors and youth and community groups.
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