Geomancer | May 30

vAct is excited to be partnering on two rEvolver projects this year, as a Community Partner for Citizen Chen and a Presenting Partner for Geomancer.

May 30
2PM
$5-30 by donation
Culture Lab (1895 Venables St, Vancouver)
Presented by Upintheair Theatre

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Can a missile scientist and a human rights activist be bound by the thread of a silkworm?

Geomancer imagines a 1993 encounter between 82-year-old Chinese missile scientist Tsien Hsue-shen (钱学森)—deported from America during McCarthyism—and his 25-year-old Chinese American biographer, Iris Chang (張純如), who would later become a renowned human rights activist.

When Iris arrives in Beijing to interview Tsien, he refuses to cooperate. Obsessed with finding a new scientific revolution—one as transformative as quantum mechanics—Tsien turns to the metamorphosis of silkworms in search of the force the ancients called qi. But it is Iris who feels the peril of what connecting with that force might mean.

Leslie Lum – Playwright

Raugi Yu – Director

Derek Chan – Director

Jasmine Chen – Actor

Kenneth Liu – Actor

Production Design – Andie Lloyd

Xin Xuan Song – Translator

Heidi Taylor – Dramaturg