White Pearl

Time Out

 Limelight Magazine

Sydney Morning Herald

Audrey Journal

Director: Priscilla Jackman
Designer: Jeremy Allen
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper
Composer and Sound Designer: Michael Toisuta
Composer and Associate Sound Designer: Me-Lee Hay
Projection Designer: Anchuli Felicia King
Dramaturg: Courtney Stewart
Voice and Dialect Coach: Amy Hume
Production and Rehearsal Photographer: Phil Erbacher
Cast list: Deborah An, Mayu Iwasaki, Matthew Pearce, Vaishnavi Suryaprakash, Merlynn Tong, Catherine Văn-Davies, Shirong Wu

Sydney Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta  Australian premiere

Date: 2019/2021/2022

About the project

Priscilla Jackman’s production of White Pearl (produced by Sydney Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Parramatta) won the 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Ensemble. In 2021 premiered at Queensland Theatre and opened the Oz Asia Festival, Adelaide. In 2022 it comes home to Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1, before touring to Riverside Theatre Parramatta, and Canberra Theatre.

A nasty truth goes viral 

In Singapore, it’s just another day at the office of Clearday cosmetics. That is, until they discover that their new TV commercial has been leaked online. The video goes viral for all the wrong reasons. Someone is definitely going to get fired.

Anchuli Felicia King’s new play is a ruthlessly entertaining portrait of toxic corporate culture, casual racism and the complexity of pan-Asian relations. As the team at Clearday scrambles to contain the fallout, the open-plan, glass-door office proves to be a nest of secrets, lies and resentments. King is an exciting, original young voice and it’s a play rich with twists, dark comedy and brutal honesty.

Priscilla Jackman directs the Australian premiere of Anchuli Felicia King’s White Pearl, in a critically and commercially acclaimed co-production for Sydney Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Parramatta.