Moongate Mixer. A non-regular series of rehearsed readings platforming Southeast and East Asian heritage drama. We kick off with ‘Wendy and Min’ by Tan Suet Lee.
‘Wendy and Min’ – When a third-generation British-born Chinese meets a PhD student from China, their relationship causes her family to reevaluate what it means to be British and Chinese in the UK.
Lisa has the perfect boyfriend, a first-class honours degree and is the youngest partner in her law firm. Wendy has two A-levels, works in Currys, and used to date a skinhead called Dan. Like any other third-generation British-born Chinese, the sisters fight, discuss sex and swap cigarettes as they navigate what it means to be British and Chinese in Reading. This question confronts Wendy and her family when she meets Peter, a PhD student from China. As their relationship deepens, family misunderstandings and conflicts increase, tempers fray, old wounds reopen, and new ones appear, pushing Wendy and her family to find their own meaning and ways of straddling two cultures.
