Guidebook publishers emerge from 2020 with new approaches to travel By Daniel Lefferts | Jul 23, 2021
Publishing involves a high degree of fortune telling: what will hook readers, in what form, and when? These questions, already daunting, are further complicated by the stubborn fact of production. You can identify a potential market, but by the time the book has been written, edited, and bound, will that market still exist? For travel publishers, 2020 brought many a devastating no. How many American readers, in spring of last year, wanted to pick up a guide to Belize?
This year brings more optimism. Vaccines are widely available, at least in some parts of the world, and travel restrictions continue to lift, even as the delta variant poses a new menace. But amid vacillating case numbers and mercurial regulations, travel publishers are again having to gamble. That may explain why presses large and small are playing it safe, and perhaps adjusting to a long-term shi
Review: Single Asian Female, Auckland Theatre Company
5 May, 2021 12:00 AM
4 minutes to read
Kat Tsz Hung is a powerhouse as Pearl in Single Asian Female. Photo / Andi Crown.
NZ Herald
The gloriously realised set of
Single Asian Female is visible before the show begins – rows of beautiful lanterns glowing behind a luminous neon sign for the Golden Phoenix Cafe, the biggest example of the rich red that permeates the set.
Then once the lights dim, the sign transforms into a karaoke machine, and we are introduced to our heroine Pearl belting out
I Will Survive in broken English, drawing the audience into her story with a boisterous, bitter monologue sang to the tune of Gloria Gaynor s hit.
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Cassandra Tse: My story, as told to Elisabeth Easther
19 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
8 minutes to read
Theatre director Cassandra Tse in the Auckland Theatre Company rehearsal rooms. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Single Asian Female by Michelle Law, directed by Cassandra Tse, is being presented by Auckland Theatre Company. All about Pearl Wong, a first-generation Chinese immigrant, restaurateur and single mother, this funny, moving play is about balancing family, business and karaoke. April 27-May15, ASB Waterfront Theatre.
I was a bookworm child, a voracious reader and very artsy. At school I was also academically bright, so was encouraged to study law alongside my theatre degree. The idea being that I d have law to fall back on. I only did the first year of my law degree, as it felt like a lot of work to have something to fall back on. I m lucky my parents have always been supportive and saw the theatre world as an acceptable pathway and my brother kindly became a lawyer instead.