Description

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Hong Kong Arts Festival New Play Selection 2016 This original play examines the psyche of Hong Kong’s millennial generation. Especially relevant after the recent “Umbrella Protests”, Chinese Lesson looks at Hong Kong students and their responses to the issues facing their city. This is a classroom drama about a Chinese language teacher and his six final year students who are about to take their university entrance exams. The play draws its material from workshops and interviews with actual secondary school and university students in Hong Kong. Playwright Tang Chi-kin creates a no-holds-barred portrayal of youth and how they see the future of their city, history, literature, culture and authority.

About the Author

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Tang Chi-kin is an accomplished playwright and actor who graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he won such accolades as the Outstanding Student Award and Outstanding Actor Award. In addition to Chinese Lesson, Tang’s playwrighting credits include The Legend of Hua Tuo and Musilove. He performed in his own written and directed show MeChat at the 2015 Pacific Festival in Vancouver. As an actor, he was named the Outstanding Young Actor of 2008 by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies, and has performed internationally in Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and in Titus Andronicus, also in London.