This Is Not An Embassy, now beginning a European tour, raises questions sure to infuriate China. The creative team explain why it is a risk worth taking
For most performers, the biggest fear about staging a new play is that no one will come. Or that an actor might forget her lines. For Chiayo Kuo, an activist, artist and diplomat, her biggest fear was that someone might shoot the cast.
“During rehearsals, I was so stressed out that I often dreamt that someone would get up from the audience and fire a gun while we were on the stage,” says Kuo.