Double Happiness: Detour This Way
...connects both shores of the Pacific with personal and communal stories of migration from the Chinese diaspora.
Nov 3,4,5,6
8pm
Nov 9,10,11
8pm
Nov 5,6,12
2pm
Double Happiness: Detour This Way traces migration paths of two families from Southern China, through Hong Kong, to finally settle in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring 13 original songs by co-leading artists Nancy Tam and Only A Visitor’s Robyn Jacob, we weave through history with an art-pop aesthetic. This multimedia performance uses live music, sound design, and video vignettes to retell personal and communal stories of migration from the Chinese diaspora in a contemporary context.
We are facing forward, looking back.
direction, sound design Nancy Tam
songs composition Nancy Tam & Robyn Jacob
performers Nancy Tam, Robyn Jacob, Emily Cheung, Amanda Sum, Molly MacKinnon, Kevin Romain, Emma Postl, Jeff Gammon
understudies Jasmine Chen, Kristin Fung
recorded images design Josh Hite
props design Stephanie Elgersma
set design Shizuka Kai
lighting design Jamie Sweeney
movement dramaturgy Giselle Liu
translations, text dramaturgy Derek Chan
brochure image photography Daniel O’Shea
a Nancy Tam and Robyn Jacob production
produced in Association with Music on Main's 2022 Modulus Festival, Neworld Theatre, plastic orchid factory, re:Naissance Opera