The Pink Detachment (2015)
The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.
Cast
- Katharine Liu - Accident-Prone Worker
- Mayu Oguri - Manager Ballerina
- Corey Tazmania - Narrator
- Isabelle Zufferey Boulton - Narrator
- Eli Condon - Company Dancer
- Jasmine Hong - Company Dancer
- Nathalie Encarnacion - Company Dancer
- Maura Harris - Company Dancer
- Sorcha Fatooh - Company Dancer
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is The Pink Detachment about?
- The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.
- Who directed The Pink Detachment?
- The Pink Detachment was directed by Jen Liu.
- Who stars in The Pink Detachment?
- The Pink Detachment stars Katharine Liu, Mayu Oguri, Corey Tazmania, Isabelle Zufferey Boulton, Eli Condon, Jasmine Hong.
- How long is The Pink Detachment?
- The Pink Detachment has a runtime of 20m (20 minutes).
- Where was The Pink Detachment produced?
- The Pink Detachment was produced in United States of America.