Based on the gripping cult novel, Hello Kitty Must Die will have its world premiere at the Pleasance for the Edinburgh Fringe.
From the producers of SIX and The Play That Goes Wrong, this darkly comedic musical mashup is a manifesto of Asian feminism: it’s time to kill the Hello Kitty stereotype because women can be anything they aspire to be – even murderers.
This chilling new show follows Fiona Yu, a high achieving, but highly disillusioned Chinese – American lawyer. Fiona is fed up with the stereotypes forced onto her by a white, patriarchal society – namely that she is the human embodiment of a certain clawless, fangless, voiceless cartoon feline. But she will pay for her own Jimmy Choos and tell anyone who tries to put a damn bow behind her ear to go to Hell.
Through a ruthless combination of sex, violence, and stilettos, Fiona reclaims her anger and takes revenge on the world. She embarks on an unusual journey of self-discovery and creates her own version of the American Dream by eliminating, without fear or remorse, anyone and anything that stands in her way.
Hello Kitty Must Die is a story by an Asian American woman, about an Asian American woman, to be performed by Asian American women. It’s an outrageously irreverent mash-up of Asian feminism which gets its claws into expectations of family, dating and that cartoon cat, to then tear them to shreds.
Author Kate Karmen, formerly Angela S. Choi, comments, With Hello Kitty Must Die, I wanted to rip into the stereotype that Chinese women were quiet, submissive, subservient. I just wanted to present a fresh, different, albeit psycho voice that said: See!? Even little yellow girls can be sick, twisted, and dark.
