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Yijing Chen
Yijing Chen is a performance designer and illustrator from China, with a particular interest in stories that respond to current social issues and connect with human nature. She collaborates closely
with creative teams to delve into ideas and explore the relationship between audience and the performance to create space that evokes unique emotions. Yijing Chen graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a BA in Design for Performance in 2022. She is studying for an MA degree at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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Death of England; Death of England – Delroy
Conceptual project
Michael is a White working-class Englishman and his friend, Delroy, is a Black working-class man of Jamaican heritage. Each give a monologue about their lives and encounters that metaphorically address issues of identity, race, and class in Britain today. Slavery, colonisation, migration and various political topics are mentioned in their speech.
What makes up Britain today? What leads to contradictions and conflicts between people? ‘History’ may be the answer to these questions. In a warehouse-like space, historical documents, objects and videos are packaged or displayed. How should we face these histories?
• Writer: Roy Williams and Clint Dyer
• Set and Costume Designer: Yijing Chen • Director: Joshua Robertson
• Venue: Carne Studio Theatre, LAMDA
Selected Works
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Women on the Verge
of a Nervous Breakdown
A group of women in a tumultuous 48 hours of love, passion and mayhem. They mentally travel between the psychological and the real world. They are dancing on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Realistic props and colourful toys form a dreamlike funfair where the real and unreal intertwine.
• Book: Jeffrey Lane
• Music and Lyrics: David Yazbek
based on the film Pedro Almodóvar
• Set design: Yijing Chen
• Director: Eva Sampson
• Costume: Amy Adair
• Lighting: James Blakeman
• Venue: Sherman Theatre
The Wolves
Set & Costume Design, 2021
In an American indoor soccer field, nine adolescent girls do warm-up exercises while talking about a range of things. Insults, gossip, and arguments are always in their conversations. They build up their view of life through sharing their opinions on the pitch.
A dynamic and unstable space, as the soccer field is also the inner world of these young girls.
• Writer: Sarah DeLappe
• Director: Debbie Seymour
• Lighting: Luke Marino
• Venue: Embassy Theatre
• Photographer: Patrick Baldwin
Death of England; Death of England – Delroy
Conceptual project
Michael is a White working-class Englishman and his friend, Delroy, is a Black working-class man of Jamaican heritage. Each give a monologue about their lives and encounters that metaphorically address issues of identity, race, and class in Britain today. Slavery, colonisation, migration and various political topics are mentioned in their speech.
What makes up Britain today? What leads to contradictions and conflicts between people? ‘History’ may be the answer to these questions. In a warehouse-like space, historical documents, objects and videos are packaged or displayed. How should we face these histories?
• Writer: Roy Williams and Clint Dyer
• Set and Costume Designer: Yijing Chen • Director: Joshua Robertson
• Venue: Carne Studio Theatre, LAMDA
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