Overview
'I refuse to be a panda. I refuse to go extinct. I want to live, to live
well, to live like them.' Bunny, a young woman from the officially
designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of China's Yunnan
Province, has witnessed her family's livelihood destroyed by mass
tourism. She dreams of escape as a globe-trotting photographer. But what
happens when the only thing you have to sell is your culture? When the
only way to free yourself is to betray your roots? In Shangri-La, her
first full-length play, Amy Ng lays bare the contradictions and private
pain of cultural tourism. The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre,
London, in 2016.