Losing Face (A Daddy Issues Play)
       
     
“It is very Christmassy, very gay, and very much about family – equal parts joyous, frightening, loving, and exposing. Losing Face is a great New Zealand play.” Theatrescenes
       
     
“It surprised me and challenged my thinking around what it means to be queer.” Bad Apple
       
     
“I couldn’t help but marvel at Joe’s writing for being able to excavate the diasporic child’s unmet expectations with such painful specificity.” Pantograph Punch
       
     
Losing Face (A Daddy Issues Play)
       
     
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Losing Face (A Daddy Issues Play)

Theatre | Q Theatre | 9 - 19 August 2023

written by Nathan Joe
directed by Samuel Phillips
produced by Punctum Productions and presented as part of Q Matchbox 2023

Shortlisted for ADAM NZ Playwriting Award 2022

On Christmas Eve, a white man and his younger Chinese boyfriend are waiting for the older white man’s half-Chinese daughter to show up. What could go wrong?

Read about the journey from page to stage here.

“It is very Christmassy, very gay, and very much about family – equal parts joyous, frightening, loving, and exposing. Losing Face is a great New Zealand play.” Theatrescenes
       
     
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“It is very Christmassy, very gay, and very much about family – equal parts joyous, frightening, loving, and exposing. Losing Face is a great New Zealand play.”
Theatrescenes

“It surprised me and challenged my thinking around what it means to be queer.” Bad Apple
       
     
+

“It surprised me and challenged my thinking around what it means to be queer.”
Bad Apple

“I couldn’t help but marvel at Joe’s writing for being able to excavate the diasporic child’s unmet expectations with such painful specificity.” Pantograph Punch
       
     
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“I couldn’t help but marvel at Joe’s writing for being able to excavate the diasporic child’s unmet expectations with such painful specificity.”
Pantograph Punch