Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater Livestream

This hilarious new comedy follows a woman with anger issues as she stalks another woman to feel better about herself.

Lili is emotionally over-literate. She’s gone through every single psychiatry textbook, WikiHow page and subreddit dedicated to anger management. Somehow, no amount of reading or talking could tame her urge to undermine people’s self-confidence and break furniture. After one particularly intense outburst, Lili decides to try a different approach…

This unpredictable three-hander charts one Chinese woman’s convoluted journey towards healing with anime music, puppetry, Shakespeare and Muay Thai. This is a story about generational trauma and the absurd and cyclical nature of recovery.

Presented by Brava Guava, “Open Source Intelligence…” at The Space is a longer, fuller, even more unhinged version of the 4-star reviewed production at Brighton Fringe.

Previous Reviews
“Absurdly comic, yet surprisingly moving insightful” “This innovative production had a great combination of absurdist comedy, physical theatre, anime cartoons, Chinese culture and hard-hitting drama that lurks under the surface.” “Everyone involved from start to finish was extremely engaged, focused and extremely mindful of the harder issues that were explored in Open Source Intelligence” ”Authentic, powerful, and extremely detailed” – ****, Theatre in Brighton

“Thought-provoking comedy” “the narrative is powerful” “engaging, very funny at times and yet never far from the rawness of Lili’s pain at the intersection of anger and unhappiness” – British Theatre Guide

Writer: Gawa Leung
Director: Tess Adèle Glinert

Performers:
Lili LUM Wai Man played by Gawa Leung
Eve Xiao / LUM Wai Ying played by Lorraine Yu
Sam played by Lavan Jeyarupalingam

Sound designer: Morik Liang
Composer: Filippo Galli
Lighting/set designer: Zidi Wu
Brighton Fringe production photographer: Peter Williams

Website: bravaguava.com

Brava Guava is an interdisciplinary ESEA women-led production company. It is…

● A space for East and Southeast Asian voices to be weird, unserious, politically charged and slightly problematic.
● A stage for the texture of Global Majority storytelling to upend narrative conventions.
● Advanced toilet humour.
● Not a platform for cyber investigations

Open Source Intelligence… is written by Gawa Leung, a Chinese neurodivergent performer and writer.