There are plays that feel grounded in reality, and then there are plays that rocket-launch themselves into parts unknown. Beautiful Princess Disorder, the world premiere from playwright Kathy Ng (she/they) at The Catastrophic Theatre, belongs unabashedly to the latter. Billed as “a fuzzy-edged sibling drama for the only child,” the production opens the gates to a
Here it is the day after Kathy Ng’s World Premiere of Beautiful Princess Disorder at Catastrophic Theatre and the vertigo from the mood swings is still hanging around. Beautiful Princess Disorder might not be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but maybe it should be. Or maybe you will just know it
Kathy Ng is a playwright, director, teacher, and crafter(!) from Hong Kong. Her work attempts to create stretchy human-adjacent spaces that are also construction sites for new alien languages. Recent works include KINGDOM, SKY RATS, and now BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS DISORDER. happy life received its world premiere production from The Hearth and was mounted at Walker