20:00, Thu 24th October 2024 at ADC Theatre (Larkum Studio)
Michaelmas Week 2
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Discrimination and/or bigotry (racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia)
STOP! Where's your real home? Where are you REALLY from? Are you caught in the throes of a lifelong identity crisis too?!
If you don't know the answers to these questions, then neither do the six Malaysian-Chinese women in ‘Between the Aisles’. Mothers, daughters, strangers, and friends come together in three unique circumstances – the aisles of a local Chinese supermarket, an airport duty-free shop, and the attic of a home preparing for Chinese New Year.
To them, family is a source of comfort, but it can also be a source of pain. To have an identity is to belong, but what if you don't know what that identity is? And ‘coming home’ means very different things to each of these six women, especially when these homes are oceans apart. Yet among their differences, there is something that binds them together, something intangibly Malaysian, something intangibly Chinese - something ‘between the aisles’ in the places we make our home.