Yellow Earth Theatre presents its 4th Typhoon festival. This week is an important and unique event in British theatre, designed to promote the best of contemporary East Asian drama through playreadings directed by distinguished guest directors.

To date, Typhoon has showcased work from new and established writers across 10 East Asian countries. This year, T4 presents work from Vietnam, Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea and from Yellow Earth and Soho Theatre's Yellow Ink initiative which nurtures young British East Asian writers.

Seminar:
East Asian Drama on the Map
A lively debate examining the week's work and ways of promoting dialogue between British theatre and East Asian dramatists. The panel will be made up from prominent members of the theatre industry.

Japan
Inugami by Shauji Terayama
The lyrical and disturbing folk legend of Tsukio the Dog-Boy seeking acceptance in ancient Japan.

Sick by Betsakagu Minoru
A reluctant nurse is sick of the sick, and there's a shoe-thief on the loose in this absurd surrealist comedy.

Malaysia
The Big Purge by Kee Thian Chye
A politicised satire dealing with racism in Malaysia. 'He who ate the chilli knows how hot it is!'

Vietnam
Graveyard for the Living by Duong Le Guy
In the aftermath of war, luxury flats for Party officials are to be built over a mass grave, with haunting consequences, in this gritty Vietnamese play reminiscent of Poltergeist.

Korea
In Quest of Love by Kwang Lim Kim
In this satire on modern Korean society, four insurance agents are investigating a suicide, but the evidence teaches them much more than they expect.

China
The Night a Tiger was Captured by Tian Han
On the eve of his only daughter's wedding, a tiger-hunter is in pursuit of a man-eater, but sometimes the greatest danger is in the last place we look.

Behind The Lie by Nick Yu
In this story of contemporary China, a police officer interrogates a psychiatrist accused of murdering his wife.

For the latest schedule and timings please visit www.yellowearth.org