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FIRST LOOK: A Playlist For The Revolution at the Bush Theatre

Published on

June 28, 2023

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Take a look at Craig Fuller's great first-look production images for AJ Yi's A Playlist For The Revolution at the Bush Theatre, London.

Mei Mei Macleod and Liam-Lau Fernandez. Photo: Craig Fuller The world premiere of AJ Yi’s A Playlist for the Revolution, a tender and surprising story of young love fighting to survive, is now playing at the Bush Theatre.  This explosive and deeply moving play is a new Bush commission, written by AJ Yi and directed by Emily Ling Williams BOOK TICKETS FOR A PLAYLIST FOR THE REVOLUTION A wedding in Hong Kong, 2019. Two worlds collide. A spark ignites.

Jonathan is a buttoned-up classical pianist, and he’s pretty sure his life will look just like his father’s: a good job, a family, firmly settled in Hong Kong.

Zak Shukor and Liam-Lau Fernandez.

Chloe is about to start university in England, and she’s ready to be the Asian Elle Woods. Empowered by the music of BTS, M.I.A and Beyonce (of course), she has big plans to make her mark.

Liam-Lau Fernandez and Mei Mei Macleod.

Through months of sharing messages, music reccs, and late-night confessions, the two get swept up in the promise of how someone unexpected can change your world. What they don’t realise is that the world around them is about to change forever.

Mei Mei Macleod and Liam-Lau Fernandez A rom-com right up until it can’t be, A Playlist for the Revolution is set against the backdrop of the largest demonstrations in Hong Kong’s history.

Mei Mei Macleod.

A Playlist For The Revolution plays until 5 August 2023 at the Bush Theatre London.

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