Writer-director Nelson Chia is a thoughtful, smart theatre-maker who has been beating out his own idiosyncratic path in the Chineselanguage theatre scene.
His latest production, First Fleet, offers all his signature hallmarks: a Chinese reading of Western classics, meditations on the role, and purpose, of art and art-making in the world, and fluid staging that draws from mostly Western theatrical traditions, including physical theatre.
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