FORGOTTEN
by Daniel York Loh
CAST |
Second Moon/Marie | Rebecca Boey |
Headman Zhang/Wild Swan | Jon Chew |
Eunuch Lin | Zachary Hing |
Big Dog | Camille Mallet De Chauny |
Old Six | Michael Phong Le |
The Professor | Leo Wan |
CREATIVE TEAM |
Director | Kim Pearce |
Designer | Emma Bailey |
Composer | Liz Chi Yen Liew |
Lighting Designer | Jessica Hung Han Yun |
Sound Designer | Luke Swaffield |
Movement Director | Quang Kien Van |
Assistant Director | Mingyu Lin |
Company Voice Work | Sun Mi Lee |
Design Associate | Natalie Johnson |
Costume Supervisor | Kyle Flynn Davies |
Production Manager | Gareth Edwards |
Company Stage Manager | Alexandra Kataigida |
Trainee Director | Tian Brown-Sampson |
Trainee ASM | Nemo Martin |
Work Placement SM | Emily Pearce |
Moongate Producer | Zhen Lin |
Marketing Manager | Gemma Lloyd |
Publicist | Nancy Poole |
Production Assistant | Eugenia Low |
Yellow Earth Artistic Director | Kumiko Mendl |
YET General Manager | Chris Corner |
YET Administrator | Tammie Rhee |
Moongate and Yellow Earth would like to thank all the actors who took part in the development workshops and previous readings of Forgotten.
Moongate and Yellow Earth would like to thank the following for their help with this production: Arts Council England, Theatre Royal Stratford East, English Touring Theatre, Young Vic, Chinese Arts Now, and Meridien Society.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES
Rebecca Boey Second Moon/Marie
Rebecca trained at East 15. Theatre: The Pulverised (Arcola Theatre & Theatre Royal York); The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (Arcola Theatre); Piranha Heights (Old Red Lion); Crystal Springs (Park Theatre); Sihanoukville (Finborough Theatre); Island (National Theatre); Ken Campbells School of Night (Latitude). TV: George Gently (BBC1); Boy Meets Girl (BBC1). Film: Schadenfreude (indie feature film); Full (B3 Media Cineast). Rebecca is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and BBC Writers Room London Voices Group, and wrote, produced and starred in Jade Dragon, a web series about British East Asians in an unconventional Chinese takeaway.
Jon Chew Headman Zhang/Wild Swan
Jon trained at LAMDA. Theatre: The Bee (Indicine); Angels in America (DPAC); Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Last Five Years, Birdy, Boom (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre; Cock (The Actors Studio). Jon recently played Prince Chulalongkorn in The King and I (London Palladium).
Zachary Hing Eunuch Lin
Zachary is a member of the National Youth Theatre. Theatre: The Way I See It (Frantic Assembly & Frantic Ignition); Cabaret & Drag Lab (Soho Theatre Young Company); Why Is The Sky Blue? (Southwark Playhouse). Film: LGBT+ short film Acronymity (National Youth Theatre & Team Angelica). R&D projects: Spider Girls (Young Vic & Head For Heights); Timeless and Twelfth Night (National Youth Theatre); Pericles (National Theatre). Zachary is a gender non-conforming artist from London, working as an actor, dancer and facilitator.
Michael Phong Le Old Six
Michael trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Theatre: The Autumn of Han and Taking Flight Festival 2017 (Red Dragonfly Productions). TV: The Catherine Tate Show (BBC); DCI Banks (ITV); Hooten & The Lady (Sky). Michael entered and won the Taking Flight Festival 2018 with his own play Khon which he wrote and performed earlier this year, and which he will be looking to take to the Edinburgh Fringe next year.
Camille Mallet De Chauny Big Dog
Camille trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre whilst training: Crazy for You, King Lear: Notoriously Abused, Balm in Gilead, Herons, Great Expectations, The Crucible. TV: Bulletproof (Vertigo). Film: Maleficent II (Walt Disney).
Leo Wan The Professor
Theatre: The Great Wave (National Theatre); Sweet Love Rememberd (Shakespeares Globe); Tamburlaine (Arcola Theatre); The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion); Das Ding and The Rover (New Diorama Theatre); Jekyll & Hyde (Southwark Playhouse). TV: Crashing (Channel 4/Big Talk). Radio: Death at the Airport, Lights! Camera! Kidnap!, Prime Cut, Tracks, Look Whos Back, The Periodic Table, Memsahib Emma. Leos awards include the Norman Beaton Fellowship in 2015.
Daniel York Loh Writer
Daniel York Loh is a mixed-race British East Asian actor, writer, filmmaker and musician. His previous play, The Fu Manchu Complex, was produced by Moongate at Ovalhouse. His short plays have been staged at the Bush, Royal Court, Orange Tree, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Rich Mix. Along with composer Craig Adams, he won the 2016 Perfect Pitch award to create an original stage musical, Sinking Water, based on events around the 2004 Morecambe Bay Chinese cockle-picker tragedy, which has been subsequently developed under commission by Theatre Royal Stratford East. He is one of twenty-one writers of colour featured in the best-selling essay collection The Good Immigrant, which won the 2016 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice award. His short films include Mercutios Dreaming: The Killing of a Chinese Actor (which he also co-directed and composed music for) and Dream of Emerald Hill. He directed Hall of Mirrors (winner Best Short Film at London Film Awards) and Finding Akira. He has also written numerous articles, including for