Theatre

In memory of Her or Him

Transsexual Olive Yang (Yang Kyin Hsiu) rose to power during the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, becoming a leading warlord on the Sino-Myanmar border. Seeking a way to support her army, Yang developed massive opium farms and trafficking routes, a business which gradually turned into Asia’s major opiate production site: the Golden Triangle. Queen Zomia, avant-garde artist Royce Ng’s second work in his Museum of Opium trilogy, takes a multi-stranded look at the different narratives that brought about such a development. Through an intriguing dream-like dialogue, visualised into hallucinatory holographic images that are captured within a transparent glass “triangle”, the Hong Kong/Australian creative force produces a powerfully resonant 3D rendition of history.