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Nelson, Canada
A Door to be Kicked is a radio play in three-acts by poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah.
Set in a small-town Chinese-Canadian cafe in the 1950s, the play explores themes of place, identity, history, and culture, with particular focus on the Chinese heritage that was such an important (and often overlooked) aspect of the settlement period of the Columbia Basin.
A Door to be Kicked is a patchwork of poetic narratives and historic voices, drawing on Fred’s Nelson, B.C.-based “biofiction”, Diamond Grill, his poetry and his writing for the collaboration “highmuckamuck.ca”, a web-based, British Columbia history project sub-titled “Playing Chinese.”
Produced as a partnership between Kootenay Co-operative Radio and Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, the play was workshopped in two live performances in Nelson in 2019. It has subsequently been recorded and produced for radio in Nelson, som