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Irene

Fan Yi

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I Have a Dream in Chinese

Development

Staged Reading, The Advance Theatre Festival
Produced by Ruby Slipper Theatre, Associated with Playwright Guild of Canada and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Vancouver, January 26, 2026


Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival, June 18-28, 2026
A play by Irene Fan Yi
Directed by Daisy Mengru Jia
Starring Charlee Ning 宁唯而
Sound Design: Nick Fangzheng Wang
Projection Design: Noel Pandawa
Stage Manager: Ziqi Liu
Presented by Liquid on Stage
A Yu Theatre Toronto Production

Award

Honoured Mention, Human Migration Literary Award (2025)

Outstanding Design, Ottawa Fringe (2026)



I hear a scream. I’m back in the windowless workplace. I’m in the chair. Who are you. One interrogation after another. Then I’m standing on the chair, waving a piece of paper, until the chair disappears beneath me. I’m falling, falling, falling, and then — the sound of the sea.

It is a dream. Or it is not.

I have a dream in Chinese is a solo play moving through migration, racialization, and the unstable border between memory and survival.

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