Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song by Dmae Roberts
Dmae Roberts presents her 1989 Peabody award-winning documentary"Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song" This memoir docu-theatre piece is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Roberts.
"Mei Mei"chronicles Dmae and her mother, Chu-Yin, as they travel to Taiwan together. Interviews and dramatizations weave in and out to tell the story of a conflicted daughter and a mother who suffered abuse, starvation and the horrors of World War Two. "Mei Mei has been broadcast on NPR, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1991, Dmae adapted the radio piece into a stage play at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center theatre.
"Mei Mei"chronicles Dmae and her mother, Chu-Yin, as they travel to Taiwan together. Interviews and dramatizations weave in and out to tell the story of a conflicted daughter and a mother who suffered abuse, starvation and the horrors of World War Two. "Mei Mei has been broadcast on NPR, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1991, Dmae adapted the radio piece into a stage play at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center theatre.
Find out more about the new film version of MEI MEI being made right now for the 25th anniversary of the radio documentary.You can also see a short film adaptation of of the radio-to-film project!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mei-mei-film-and-archive-for-25th-anniversary