Tea at the West End Theatre

The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre presents Tea, by Velina Hasu Houston, opening at the West End Theatre on 30 May 2007, following previews from 20 May and running through to 17 Jun 2007.

Tea: Set in Kansas in 1968, four Japanese war brides gather to remember their friend Himiko, who killed herself before the play begins. Himiko's Japanese Buddhist friends gather in her old home to have tea, clean her house, and discuss her life. Soon the women begin to reminisce about their days in Japan, and how they ended up where they are, the discrimination they have faced, the direction their lives have taken.

Directed by Tina Chen, Tea features Ako, Akiko Hiroshima, Karen Tsen Lee, Jo Shui and Momo Yashima.