In the video below, writer/ performer Yang-May Ooi tells the story of her great-grandmother that inspired her to write Bound Feet Blues.
Yang-May writes:
The show was only one hour long so I made certain artistic choices in portraying my great-grandmother in the theatre performance. Her story is incomplete in the show because I wanted the audience to stay with the moment of transformation rather than seeing how her story ends.
The book of Bound Feet Blues takes great-grandma’s story and extends and deepens it at the more leisurely pace that a long read can offer. So for those of you who
want to find out what happens to my great-grandmother after she reaches Malaya from China, the book fills in all the details. If you haven’t seen the show, it doesn’t matter because great-grandma’s full story unfolds in the book from beginning to end.
Check out the video above for more discussion and background.
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If you missed the show, you can still discover the story for yourself in the book. The book stands alone as a distinct work from the show.
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Yang-May’s great-grandmother with bound feet
Bound Feet Blues - A Life Told in Shoes 