YELLOW SKIN

Yellow Skin is a new performance work by Tony Tran in collaboration with Louise Paolo de Venecia and Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang.

Bringing together three queer performers from Southeast Asian diasporic backgrounds, with roots in Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the work explores how Southeast Asian people have historically been represented and caricatured in Europe, and how these images continue to shape the ways our bodies and identities are seen and understood.

Through choreography, karaoke, drag, ballroom, Vietnamese Lô Tô bingo shows and popular culture, we enter these stereotypes to disrupt, rewrite and reclaim them.

In each touring city, two local performers are invited to join the core ensemble. In this way, the work transforms through encounters with local communities, perspectives and lived experiences.

Beyond the performance, Yellow Skin seeks to create dialogue with local cultural organisations and diaspora communities, opening up broader conversations about representation, diversity and belonging.

Yellow Skin is set to premiere and tour in 2028. More information coming soon.