Pearl's Beauty Salon

by Stefani Kuo

Pearl’s Beauty Salon is a play about home and Hong Kong. Maru is visiting Pearl’s Beauty Salon for her first Brazilian wax when she falls into the rabbit hole of what Hong Kong is to her – through history, fantasy, memory, nostalgia, and interrogations of colonialism, identity, ownership, and belonging, Maru takes us on an emotional journey in Pearl’s Beauty Salon through three different eras. This play moves in...

Pearl’s Beauty Salon is a play about home and Hong Kong. Maru is visiting Pearl’s Beauty Salon for her first Brazilian wax when she falls into the rabbit hole of what Hong Kong is to her – through history, fantasy, memory, nostalgia, and interrogations of colonialism, identity, ownership, and belonging, Maru takes us on an emotional journey in Pearl’s Beauty Salon through three different eras. This play moves in concentric circles: from Hong Kong to Continental Wax Land, USA, to the artifice of theatre, the audience is asked to question, participate, and engage with the constantly changing tides, as Maru does throughout the play.

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Pearl's Beauty Salon

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  • Premiere Stages at Kean University: Pearl's Beauty Salon by Stefani Kuo
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    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize Pearl’s Beauty Salon as a Semi-Finalist for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. The play rose through a competitive process conducted by Premiere staff and an external panel to become distinguished among 805 submissions. The panel commended the moments of visceral humanity between the characters, full of physical and emotional vulnerability. Our congratulations and thanks to Stefani.

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize Pearl’s Beauty Salon as a Semi-Finalist for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. The play rose through a competitive process conducted by Premiere staff and an external panel to become distinguished among 805 submissions. The panel commended the moments of visceral humanity between the characters, full of physical and emotional vulnerability. Our congratulations and thanks to Stefani.

    ”
  • Shaun Leisher: Pearl's Beauty Salon by Stefani Kuo
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    A stunning piece of theatre about the history and current state of Hong Kong. Really moving characters and dialogue.

    A stunning piece of theatre about the history and current state of Hong Kong. Really moving characters and dialogue.

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