Actors Touring Company present the European premiere of this “wickedly funny and surprisingly touching take on race and class” (East by South East) by acclaimed Asian-Australian playwright Michele Lee, directed by Matthew Xia.
Nisha is a young hotshot executive working for Golden Fields, Australia’s largest producer of rice. Nisha is determined to become the first female Indian CEO in Australia. She’s close to sealing a secret deal that would see her company take over India’s national rice distribution system.
Yvette, an older Chinese migrant, is the cleaner who sees to Nisha’s desk. Yvette has her own entrepreneurial ambitions, but her daughter faces court after leading a protest against a national supermarket chain.
Together they form a powerful – if unlikely – bond as they navigate the complexities of their lives and the world at large.
Rice explores migrants of different generations and the complex relationships they forge with their new home – and with each other. It’s a play about ambition, family and the unlikely friendship between a hotshot executive and the office cleaner.