An epic story of love,
laughter, and loss -
Ka Shue (Letters Home), is
coming to Hamilton’s Meteor Theatre.
A play spanning
one hundred years between China and New Zealand through the
eyes of a Chinese family struggling to resettle in Aotearoa.
Ka Shue (Letters Home) follows three generations of
the Leung family as they are swept across continents and
time: The Second World War, the Tiananmen Square massacre of
1989, and the infamous buried history of the Poll Tax in New
Zealand, £100 levied against Chinese migrants only (1883 to
1944).
Ka Shue encompasses a broad sweep of the
political events between the two countries as a backdrop for