A Westerner's Guide to the Opium Wars

Tabitha Woo was born in Australia. Her dad wasn't, but that's just the end of the story. A Westerner's Guide to the Opium Wars takes audiences as far back in Tabitha's family tree as she knows: to the early 19th century and the First Opium War. With help from a sock puppet, Queen Victoria and a couple of Broadway showtunes, she tries to understand her cultural heritage.

Westerner's Guide is a genre-hopping escapade of heartfelt memoir and biting historical comedy. Made by a team of second-generation Australians, it's for anyone who has been asked "But where are you really from?" often enough to start asking themselves the same question.

This is genealogy like you've never seen it before.