Articles in "Theatre"

The play We Are Gay was expected to debut in the 2020 Hong Kong Arts Festival but had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of the pandemic. In its 2022 premiere, the work is presented as a newly rehearsed and designed version. ...

In a year when a previously unknown virus spread like wildfire across the globe, theatre was forced to swiftly adapt to a new reality, branching out into new formats and production means. The result has been an enrichment of theatrical language by a raft of new insights and emotional responses....

Two years ago, the Hong Kong Arts Festival began commissioning local artists to create a musical about the young Sun Yat-sen. First, they brought composer Peter Kam on board, then director Eugene Ma, playwright Sunny Chan and lyricist Chris Shum joined the team, and the Yat-sen creative quartet began to take shape....

In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, Albert Camus’s second novel, La Peste (The Plague), was published in France. The story describes the devastation wrought by a fictional plague on the Algerian city of Oran. Its insights into humanity’s will to survive and the choices people make in the face of fear and death resonated with post-war readers....

Ivan Mercier takes a look at one of two adaptations of The Plague being presented at this year’s HKAF—a ground-breaking online version performed simultaneously by a cast in six countries around the world....