THE HUNGRY GHOST
“I feel like a newborn out in the world for the first time. I feel… ravenous.”
Tonight’s the night. She’s got a plan. And it involves her (secret) girlfriend, and the house they’re about to move into together.
And it doesn’t matter to her that her mum warns tonight is the first night of the ghost month. Because parents will say anything to keep you home.
Swiping an orange from the family altar and pocketing a coin she finds on her way over to the new place, she steps through the doorway – and unwittingly invites a hungry ghost into both of their lives. As the ghost starts to take over and she wrestles for control of her own body, her carefully constructed house of lies comes tumbling down around her.
A sexy horror rom-com exploring what takes root in the space between superstition and rationality. Starring Olivier Award nominee Mei Mac and Bridgerton’s Isabella Wei, The Hungry Ghost is the debut play from Mei Leng Yew, directed by New Earth Theatre Artistic Director Ailin Conant.
Photography by Corinne Cumming.
Writer Mei Leng Yew
Director Ailin Conant
Associate Director Yanni Ng
Set and Costume Designer Yimei Zhao
Associate Designer Sam Tam Tsz Hei
Lighting Designer Cheng Keng
Composer and Sound Designer Carla Ng
Movement Director Jasmine Chiu
Intimacy Coordinator Sango Tajima
Production Manager Titch Gosling
Stage Manager Florian Lim
Assistant Stage Manager and Understudy Adrianna Kei
Dramaturg Pippa Hill
Producer Clarissa Widya and Tammie Rhee for New Earth Theatre
Cast Mei Mac, Isabella Wei
REVIEWS FOR THE HUNGRY GHOST
“Are You Watching? sufficiently shatters whatever protective barrier lets us believe we’re not active participants in what we watch.”
— Kate Wyver for The Guardian (4-stars)
“Every actor, most of them playing multiple roles, is at the absolute top of their game, and Dettmer displays an unerring ear for dialogue and a fierce, bold theatrical imagination, fully matched here by cast and creatives.”
— Alun Hood for WhatsOnStage (4-stars)