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Tan, Joel

 
9781839044243: Scenes from a Repatriation

Synopsis

'All of human history? It's basically people taking things from each other."

A 1000-year-old statue of the Boddhisattva Guan Yin lives in The British Museum.

When it emerges that the statue was stolen from its original home, the museum attempts to deflect both the public response and controversial repatriation claims from the Chinese government.

As statesmen scheme and grease their palms, beneath the statue witches dance, a cleaner prays, and spirits weep. Guan Yin's gaze falls over the broken shards of human life from empires old and new.

Joel Tan's shape-shifting play Scenes from a Repatriation unfolds the statue's journey from China to Britain and back again, stirring up centuries of ghosts. It is premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 2025, directed by experimental theatre-makers emma + pj.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright based between London and Singapore.

In Singapore, his plays have been produced by leading theatre companies like Checkpoint Theatre, Wild Rice, and Pangdemonium, and several are available in a collection, Joel Tan Plays Volume 1, published by Checkpoint Theatre.

Recent work in the UK includes: Scenes from a Repatriation (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 2025); No Particular Order (Theatre 503, London, 2022); When The Daffodils (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 2021); Living Newspaper with the Royal Court Theatre; Overheard, and Augmented Chinatown with Chinese Arts Now.

His play Love in the Time of the Ancients was a finalist for the 2019 Papatango Prize, and No Particular Order was shortlisted for Theatre 503's 2018 Playwriting Award.

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