Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:00pm
Is There Work On Mars?
Dramatic Theatre - PAPERCUT - Ages 16+ - 1hr
Can an Asian with a maths learning disability pass Nylon Tusk’s Mars Immigration Test?
Welcome to an absurdist testing lab of dystopian speculations.
Attempting to move to Mars via the Worker’s Visa, a woman with ADHD and dyscalculia finds herself in SpaceY’s testing lab. She fights through with her wide array of talents – striptease, beer pong and cheerleading – to not be the Asian failure who is just never enough.
IS THERE WORK ON MARS? had a 5-star run at Edinburgh Fringe 2024 and was nominated for Neurodiverse Review’s ADHD Comedy Award.
About the Artist:
Faye Yan (b. Yafei Zheng, Beijing) is a London-based interdisciplinary performance artist, writer, director and filmmaker. She completed her undergraduate studies at UCLA and is excited to return to this beautiful city with her show after four years. Faye’s work combines durational art with theatre and engages with diaspora, gender, mental health and social issues. Her one-woman show “IS THERE WORK ON MARS?” had a 5-star run at Edinburgh Fringe 2024 and was nominated for the Neurodiverse Review Awards. The show has also been toured at Southbank Centre (London), Contact Theatre (Manchester), Theatre Peckham (London) and Camden Fringe (London). Her solo and collaborative live art projects have taken her to platforms such as Riposte (London), Aotuspace (Beijing) and X Museum (Beijing). Her film and video works have been awarded Best Screenplay by International Youth Short Film Competition and Best Animation by Shorttakes Festival. Faye completed her BA in Comparative Literature and Film at UCLA and MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London.
