Past Productions
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2004 Apr-May Sun is Shining by Matt Wilkinson
A first for British-East Asian theatre. Our production played again at the inuagural Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York to again great reviews.

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2004 March Sweet n Sour Comedy by Various Writers
A pilot for the BBC, this was a direct descendent from our 1998 project Frying Circus. Produced by BabyCow productions (www.babycow.co.uk), this was not picked up.

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2004 Jan The Missing Chink (TV) by Paul Courtenay Hyu
Produced by Touch Productions (www.touchproductions.co.uk) from a Mu-Lan original concept, this four-part series addressed the issue of the conspicuous absence of the British-East-Asian on television.

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2002 & 2003 Mar-Apr Sun is Shining by Matt Wilkinson
Time Out Critics' Choice.
"Theatre for the adrenaline culture" -Evening Standard "Not to be missed"- What's On. Our first full London production since Take Away, this show represents the first play to come to full production from our new writing work and was a huge triumph both critically and at the box-office. This production was re-mounted at the Battersea Arts Centre in spring 2003 as part of their "Best of Critics' Choice" season, when it yet again entered that list

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2001 Nov 2nd Festival of New Writing by Hong Khaou and Bruce Wang
Mu-Lan presented 2 plays selected from their 1st Festival of New Writing, which were performed as rehearsed readings in their entirety, tying in with Soho Theatre's New Writing Festival.

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2001 Sept Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
"This performance is a masterpiece" "...an exceptionally refreshing and exhilarating version of the famous tragedy." "Easily the best thing I have ever seen at the Haymarket". This co-production with the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke, is the country's first-ever Shakespeare production with a predominantly Anglo-Chinese cast.

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2000 Nov Daughter of the River adaptation by Daniel York
The original Chinese title is, in fact, "The Hungry Daughter" (based on the autobiography by Hong Ying) - a referral to the great famine that precedes the birth of the book's narrator; a famine in which millions died but one that was kept secret until after Mao Zedong's death.

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2000 Sept 1st Festival of New Writing by Different Authors
'...Audiences will feast on eleven new works by New British East-Asian writers, comprising ten small-scale performed readings and one larger, showpiece presentation "Dining Alone" (Lab Ky Mo)..' Review by Stuart Wood. www.dimsum.co.uk

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2000 Aug Take Away my Take Away! an inter-active arts installation
...A special day-out with the Mu-lan team at the Coram Fields Chinese Arts in the Park Millennium Celebrations.

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1999 Feb Frying Circus an original sketch-comedy show by Different Authors
The highlight of the Yan Huang Chinese New Year Festival in London's Docklands, this one-off show packed out Cabot Hall with over 300 people to witness this unprecedented and to-date still the only Chinese comedy sketch show. Devised and directed by Paul Courtenay Hyu, this has recently been picked up by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal's Baby Cow television production company and a pilot is being made by them for the BBC lin 2004.

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