Who’s Asking? Who’s Talking? comprises two original performances devised by next generation theatremakers in response to Madame Mao’s Memories.

Fragments uses fragmented visuals and flashes of memories that make up our understanding of contexts to establish our truths and uncover ourselves in Madame Mao’s Memories.

Nobody Asked! interrogates the authorship of Madame Mao’s Memories and articulates our collective frustration towards the ways in which women’s stories are retold, rewritten and appropriated.

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Written by Henry Ong in 1989, Madame Mao’s Memories is a monodrama based on the life of Jiang Qing, consort to the Chairman of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong, and one of the chief instigators of the Cultural Revolution.

T:>Works staged Madame Mao’s Memories in 1991, directed by Ong Keng Sen, and performed by Claire Wong. In 1992, T:>Works brought the production to the Edinburgh Festival where it received international critical acclaim.

Thirty years on, nine students from the National University of Singapore’s Theatre Studies TS3103 Theatre Lab have developed two performances which respond to the play’s themes, issues and dramaturgy.

Join us on 9 April at 72-13, home of T:>Works, to uncover who’s asking and who’s talking in Madame Mao’s Memories.