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The World of Extreme Happiness

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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

Published by Methuen

3 Male 3 Female

Sunny leaves behind her family and her home in rural China for the promise of a job in a factory and a new life

The bright neon lights of Shenzhen soon fade and Sunny is left mopping factory floors, though she wants more much more

But her hunger for self-improvement leaves her trapped in the machine of progress as she is forced to face the human cost of wealth, power, fame and honour

Imaginative and wildly energetic, The World of Extreme Happiness is a powerful play journeying through the transformation in contemporary China

Premiered by the UK's National Theatre September, 2013

REVIEWS

"Fascinating and ferocious" ~ Metro

"A snappy theatrical insight into contemporary China. Fascinating" ~ Evening Standard

'Punchy, funny and fiercely entertaining.' The Stage

"One of the very best new plays of the year" ~ Whatonstage

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