Porcelain

Porcelain is a play by Chay Yew (Singapore), translated into the Norwegian by Michael H. Sciarrone.

The following description of the plot is from Oslo International Theatre. The company performed the play as a staged reading in 2011:

"Nineteen year old Asian John Lee shoots his gay lover six times, in the chest, stomach and crotch, in a public restroom in London. If there is one thing he doesn't feel like doing, it's telling the middle-aged, alcoholised and unorthodox psychologist Jack Worthing why he did it.

The sensational journalist Marin Forbes is interested in John's bloodied story, too, in particular because the scene of the killing is a restroom known for casual sex between men. Forbes' assortment of interviewees in the London streets reveals a society dominated by bigoted opinions hidden beneath a polite surface, in which homophobia and homosexuality, fear of the unknown and fascination of the unknown live side by side.

In this prize-awarded play John's experiences as a young, gay Asian are explored through a web of text levels. Present and past, therapy lessons and interviews, a Chinese myth and the final scene of Carmen are interwoven to make a complex image of an outsider not feeling at home in any camp."

Source:

Oslo International Theatre, oslointernasjonaleteater.com, 14.09.2012, http://oslointernasjonaleteater.com/2011/01/23/porselen/