
Our Productions
We work with industry-leading organisations and artists to create nationally-touring theatre that explores BESEA narratives with complexity.
Production Archive
2020 - Present
Inspired by true events, WORTH takes a darkly comic look at family loss and sibling rivalry.
New Earth Theatre in association with Arcola Theatre and The North Wall present The Apology by Kyo Choi.
New Earth Theatre and Storyhouse present the Storyhouse production of Miss Julie adapted by Amy Ng.
Using puppetry, music and striptease, this is a show about diaspora, assimilation, and siblinghood; about what happens when you don’t know how to read yourself; and about reaching across history in search of a reflection.
Triptych is a new trio of short films by Quang Kien Van reflecting on experiences of Lockdown, Quarantine and Isolation.
Bayanihan with Love is a project made in response to the adverse effects of the pandemic on the Filipino community in the UK.
Pamela Carter's new film explores family and heritage through the lives of her grandmothers, one in Singapore, the other in England.
Responding to a call-out, a repairman finds himself inexplicably drawn to an old woman and her house in the woods. At first it seems like a simple fix, but as a storm starts to close in, he is forced to confront the ghosts from his past.
2010 - 2019
Yellow Earth presents Christopher Marlowe's thrilling, controversial and compelling masterpiece, Tamburlaine.
The story of Yeh Shen first appeared in 9th Century China, over 1,000 years before the first European Cinderella story.
Few people today know there was once a thriving Chinatown in London’s East End. Yellow Earth’s recent production took audiences on a journey into this forgotten world.
Dim Sum Nights was back in October/November 2013 by popular demand. Brand new and fresh bite sized pieces of theatre were served up with a taste of Dim Sum and Chinese tea.
Dim Sum Nights, our unique show that delivered fresh tasty bite sized theatre along side a taste of Chinese Dim Sum completed a tour in Autumn 2012.
The company's first ever Dim Sum Nights. Bringing Yellow Ink, Yellow Stages and Yellow Academy together, a wide variety of short 10 minute pieces of theatre were served up in a restaurant with Dim Sum and tea. A total of 16 new pieces were presented across four performances.
2000 - 2009
wAve was created and toured with Boom for Yellow Earth’s Autumn 2009 Tour. Two very different plays by two exciting and talented East Asian writers: Boom by Jean Tay and wAve by Sung Rno.
Boom was created and toured with wAve for Yellow Earth’s Autumn 2009 Tour. Two very different plays by two exciting and talented East Asian writers: Boom by Jean Tay and wAve by Sung Rno.
An exciting new piece of outdoor theatre suitable for all the family, created to celebrate the opening of the Beijing Olympics.
Exhilarating, refreshing and richly visual, Running the Silk Road blends East and West, telling a modern story mixed with Chinese myths.
This bold UK premiere of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy is given an exciting modern spin with Britain’s award winning YET and China’s contemporary SDAC, featuring Chinese movie star Zhou Yemang as Lear.
A visually exciting production of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale for family audiences using dance, music and video. Developed in association with Half Moon Young People’s Theatre and co-produced by Hong Kong Arts Festival in association with Chung Ying Theatre Company, in partnership with the British Council Hong Kong.
A new play about numbers, immigration and luck. Produced in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Leicester Haymarket Theatre and The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury.
A glimpse into the dark underbelly of modern life in Japan. The estranged members of a working class Japanese family gather for the youngest son’s funeral. His diary reveals a deeply scarring Oedipal experience.
What happened to the three daughters of King Lear before they made their entrances in Shakespeare’s classic?
A bittersweet Vietnamese comedy of mistaken identity, The Butcher’s Skin tells the story of Truong Ba, a gentle gardener accidentally struck off the Book of Life by careless gods.
FACE was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre for their FESTIVAL NOW in 1998. It was first developed in English with director Chris Harris in Bristol, and then reworked in Cantonese with director Shu-wing Tang, premiering in Hong Kong with great success.
FACE was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre for their FESTIVAL NOW in 1998. It was first developed in English with director Chris Harris in Bristol, and then reworked in Cantonese with director Shu-wing Tang, premiering in Hong Kong with great success.
Play To Win is a contemporary, accessible and thought-provoking story which shows the temptations and perils every adolescent faces in school today.
1996 - 1999
Innocent nostalgia is shattered in a playfully anarchic staging of Potter’s classic tale. Performed by a multiracial ensemble in a highly physical European style on a set of old, discarded mattresses.
Multi-media exploration of the British Chinese diaspora during the 1997 Hong Kong handover back to China.
Bittersweet rites-of-passage story following the progress of a teenager from rural Hong Kong to public school in England.