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Miss Peony
牡丹小姐

by Michelle Law
Directed by Courtney Stewart

  • Venue Melbourne & Wollongong
  • Dates New Dates TBC

    This is an archive page. Click here to view the 2023 production page of Miss Peony.

    A brand new comedy from the writer of the smash hit Single Asian Female.

    Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. She doesn’t care that times have changed and that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. She sees that Lily’s caught between worlds, and wants her to enter the Chinese community beauty pageant, the highly competitive Miss Peony. She won’t take no for an answer.

    And to makes matters worse, she’s a ghost.

    I entered a beauty pageant once as a teenager and won Best Personality. In a beauty pageant! This is going to be glitzy and glamorous and slightly unhinged. – Michelle Law

    Supported by the Creative Development Fund.

    Miss Peony has been developed in partnership with Belvoir and Playwriting Australia.

    In collaboration with Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Arts Centre Melbourne.

    Supported by the Nelson Meers Foundation.

    Miss Peony is a multi-lingual production, featuring surtitles in three languages: English, Cantonese and Simplified Chinese.

    Team

    Set and Costume Designer Jonathan Hindmarsh
    Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
    Composer Dr Nicholas Ng
    Sound Designer Julian Starr
    Choreographer Kristina Chan
    Assistant Director Nicole Pingon
    Surtitler and Mandarin Translator Dr Jing Han
    Cantonese Translator Sylvia Xu
    Fight Director Nigel Poulton
    Intimacy Coordinator Chloë Dallimore
    Stage Manager Lillian Hannah U
    Assistant Stage Manager Bronte MacInnes

    Cast

    Gabrielle Chan as Adeline
    Jing-Xuan Chan as Marcy
    Kaeng Chan as Vincent (tour)
    Mabel Li as Sabrina
    Christy Tran as Lily
    Charles Wu as Vincent
    Shirong Wu as Joy

    Videos

    • Running Time and Content Warnings

      Running time: approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes including interval.

      Miss Peony includes some strong language, smoking of herbal and electronic cigarettes and the use of haze.

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    This is an archive page. Click here to view the 2023 production page of Miss Peony.