Anna Chen Presents ‘Traders’

Mark this date in your diary, 16 Feb 2012!
This is will be a very good night. Satirising and spoofing the blood soaked history of British imperialism and the Opium Wars. I will be playing one of the biggest drug addicts of the ruling class, Queen Victoria, explaining in, no uncertain terms, why the Opium Wars was good for business, free trade and drug smuggling. Queen Victoria cares not one jot about the oppression of the Chinese or to be more exact, forcing Opium on them by violence and brutality.

So if you want to see me dressed as a regal Queen reading poetry and listen to performances by Anna Chen and friends. Come along….The evening includes legendary writer Charles Shaar Murray on guitar, and former Flying Lizards singer Deborah Evans-Stickland performing her classic mega-hit, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’. Oh and historical characters connected to the Opium Wars battling it out on stage……

Please come along………..

Thursday 16 February
Anna Chen Presents Traders’ requires booking but the event is FREE . 
Online: www.rmg.co.uk/tickets 
(Tel: 020 8312 6608) 
The Bookings Office is open 10.00-16.00.

Experience a unique evening of live performance, poetry and music in the company of our flamboyant hostess and cultural provocateur Anna Chen.

China and the Opium Wars of the 19th century are the theme of this satirical extravaganza, written and performed by Anna Chen and friends. The evening includes legendary writer Charles Shaar Murray on guitar, and former Flying Lizards singer Deborah Evans-Stickland performing her classic mega-hit, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’.

The evening will feature a poetry slam led by UK slam poetry pioneers Farrago Poetry Slam. Historical characters from the Opium Wars will battle it out on stage, led by slam maestro John-Paul O’Neil. You will have the chance to join workshops and write your own poems too.

Also on the night, see a very alternative tea ceremony and follow a Chinese Lascar sailor on his journey through the Traders gallery. DJ Zoe Baxter (of Resonance FM’s Lucky Cat) will be playing from a fabulous selection of 1920s and 30s Chinese music throughout the evening.

Part of the Traders Unpacked season, 25 September 2011—25 February 2012. Events programme sponsored by Sharwood’s.
Established by a group of London merchants, the East India Company was given its first royal charter by Elizabeth I. By the time it was abolished 250 years later, Queen Victoria was on the throne. Traders: the East India Company and Asia is a new gallery at the museum which examines the history and relevance of Britain’s trade with Asia, through the East India Company.

Image of Anna Chen, credit Jan Jefferies

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