Twisting Fortunes

Wind it up for a bittersweet, frothy mix of romance and sexual tension this winter with Twisting Fortunes, a made-in-Vancouver play set to the buzz of Terminal City's café culture.

TF is written by Charlie Cho (Hot Sauce Posse, Ricepaper magazine) and Grace Chin ( Scripting Aloud co-producer), and is directed by Kathy Leung (writer of the Leo-nominated Lily's Crickets, Scripting Aloud co-producer), with sponsorship support from Scripting Aloud and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) .

Reminiscent of the Richard Linklater film Before Sunrise, Ray Chow and Jessy Leung exchange coffee, tea and repartee against a video montage of familiar Vancouver venues in TF's intimate look at personal, sexual and racial politics on the multicultural Left Coast. A radio reporter and simultaneous non-dater, Ray is tired of the game. An aspiring actor and serial monogamist, Jessy still hasn't found what she's looking for. They both want out - or do they want in?

Zen Shane Lim, the male lead in VACT's popular Sex in Vancouver theatre episodic based on the successful American Sex in Seattle series, headlines this two-act play about an accidentally Asian pair who find it easy enough to fall in like, then find their relationship anything but. Chin, an actor herself, takes on the female lead.

TF is the first theatrical production to emerge from Scripting Aloud, a monthly pan-Asian Canadian scriptreading series active since 2005.

Twisting Fortunes plays February 6, 7, 8, 9 at 8 p.m. at the Playwrights Theatre Centre (1398 Cartwright Street) on Granville Island. Tickets $10 at the door, $11 online via PayPal at http://www.scriptingaloud.ca/TF.htm.

Media enquiries:
Charlie Cho
co-writer, Twisting Fortunes
co-producer, TF Productions
778-288-5933 c
twistingfortunes@gmail.com