Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

China, in 1992, is laying the foundations for global wealth and power. In the populace province of Henan, a rural family is recruited into a new and unusual trade that promises to pull them out of poverty––selling their blood to the government. But amidst the hype and the soaring profits, an infectious disease specialist at the Ministry of Health uncovers an unimaginable secret that will test the limits of her loyalty to her profession, to her family, and to her country. Based on the true story of whistleblower Wang Shuping's extraordinary mission to expose a national cover-up of epic proportions. .

""We can’t afford to be smug here – we’ve had our own terrible health scandals. But as global power continues to shift to Beijing, we ignore this parable at our peril.'" -- The Telegraph

As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will strike. Three years later, a businesswoman visits the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the curse destroys every living thing.

"It's an expansive, ambitious play about trauma and passion which sees ancient weather curses collide with climate change, vengeful ghosts with corrupt officials." -- The Stage

When Sunny is born in a rural vilage on the Yangtze River, her parents dump her in a slop bucket and leave her to die because she isn't a boy. Sunny survives, and at 14 leaves home for a Shenzhen factory to fund her brother's education. There she works grueling shifts cleaning toilets and dreams of promotion. Desperate to maximize her only capital--her youth--Sunny attends self-help classes and learns ways to improve her chances at securing a coveted office position. But when her dogged attempts to pull herself out of poverty hurt a fellow worker, Sunny begins to question the design of a system she has spent her life trying to master, and starts to fight for an alternative.

A former Guantanamo detainee dying of liver disease journeys to the home of his female interrogator fifteen years after their time together to demand half her liver for the damage she wreaked on his body and soul during her interrogations.

A sister journeys to the Chinese Land of the Dead in search of her missing brother, encountering a frenetic landscape where the Goddess of Mercy and the Monkey King reign, and Dance Dance Revolution holds the key to Transmigration.