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CINARS 2024 Highlights 

Pat To Yan

Playwright, Director, Educator active in Hong Kong and German Theatre.

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​"A Concise History of Future China"

​The first ethnic Chinese play selected by Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt 2016.

House Author of Germany Nationatheatre Mannheim (2021-2022).

Reframe Theatre

A multidisciplinary theatre company which has been formed in Hong Kong since 2016.

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We aim at exploring new writing, scenography, relationship between body and space.

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The remarkable theatre, film and other community projects have been presented in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Germany.

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Happily Ever After Nuclear Explosion

  • Official Programme of CINARS 2021

  • Commissioned by Munich Residenztheater in 2018. It’s under the programme of World/Stage

  • Invited by Asia Playwright Festival (South Korea) in 2019

 

Medium / Small scale with 2 performers

Could we still find happiness after a nuclear explosion?

In this play, Pat To Yan tackles another thought-provoking issue that is closely related to our lives through Happily ever after nuclear explosion. Two performers lead the audience into the post-nuclear-explosion world through daily objects, video presentation and installation.

A sister and her younger brother from the nuclear contaminated areas emerge on stage. She talks of the preceding catastrophe and the life after it. He opens his mouth but there is no sound—just a severe gag reflex. To evade isolation and social exclusion, they return to their hometown, presumably now a dead city. At the epicentre of the catastrophe, to their surprise, is a vibrant nature where animals live freely and flowers blossom, no more lives destroyed, and everything is bright and beautiful…

25-28 MAY 2021

Official programme @ CINARS 2021

12-14 JULY 2019,

JC CUBE, TAI KWUN, Hong Kong

In Cantonese, with English Surtitle

3-4 NOV 2019,

International Playwrights Festival, Korea

In Cantonese, with English Surtitle

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Goldfish of Berlin

  • ​​​​Special stage design: all audience are seated on the revolving stage and moved from the front to the rear stage

  • Translated into French and is published by the French publisher, Editions Espaces 34

  • Selected by Mousson d'été Festival as Lecture reading

  • ​A love story about migration between two cities and being expelled by various linguistic context

Medium / Small scale with 3 performers and Revolving stage

In an age of liquidity, how can a person manage his love/life?

 

Sze Yin, a middle aged Hong Konger, specialises in creative technology. Once he met Lin lin in Berlin. Lin lin, aged 20 something, was born in Xi’an. They quickly fell in love with each other, but Sze Yin could only keep a long-distance relationship with her as he had to be back to Hong Kong……

 

After three months, Yat Sum, at the same age with Sze Yin, suddenly kept seeing him. They studied in the same secondary school; and when Sze Yin was 25, Yat Sum saved his life, to a certain extent. But Yat Sum was married, had a son aged 5 …….

 

It’s a love story and not yet only a love story, as always. It’s still a story about city, life, time, migration and people expelled by various linguistic context.

6 - 8 OCT 2023

Yuen Long Theatre, HONG KONG

In Cantonese

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A Poem in Jail

  • Tailor-made immersive theatre in collabration with TAI KWUN, Hong Kong

  • A story about Hong Kong Mass Emigration Wave in 1997

  • Reflects the pressure suffered by lesbians back in the 90s

 

Large scale with 6 performers and tailor-made design structure to venue

I’m not waiting for you.

 

In prison, time is at once transitory and eternal….resurfacing as memories for the future. In the 1980s, two women were imprisoned in Victoria Prison, where they experienced an unexpected romance in confinement. Their growing affections for each other were interrupted as one was released while the other wrote a love poem of longing on her bed board. When released from prison, she discovered that her lover had already married. She suppressed her mishmash of feelings and started a family as well. Approaching 1997, she did not want to live in a bigger prison. The decision to immigrate prompted a final rendezvous and conversation in which deep feelings were cast aside but never forgotten. Inspired by a bed board with a love poem found in a women’s prison, this groundbreaking immersive production features artists across disciplines, including Pat To Yan (theatre), Kingsley Ng (media installation), Adrian Yeung (video artist), Jass Leung (dramaturg) and Chow Yiu Fai (lyric artist). The immersive theatre will be remade in Tai Kwun, as lyrics, sounds, images and theatrical performances are interwoven, leading the audience to tread a path that explores Central then and now.

 

*Concept of the show title by〈黑房〉, Chow Yiu Fai

7 - 16 MAY, 2021

TAI KWUN, Hong Kong

In Cantonese

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Post Office
In Hell
–The Origin

  • ​​​​A new collaboration between Hong Kong novelist Westwingmoon and playwright-director Pat-to Yan

  • ​The production involves two parts, which begins with an audio tour and then walks the audience on a path through life and death inside the theatre

  • Reveals Hong Kong culture regarding Life, Death and Afterlife 

 

Medium / Large scale with 6 performers

The new, stand-alone theatre production tells the story of postman Nam Moon Leung – an individual gifted with the ability to travel between worlds and deliver letters to loved ones in the afterlife. As he journeys back and forth between the living and the dead, Nam Moon witnesses the remorse of his clients. Forced to confront his own personal issues, he navigates how to save himself, his family and his significant other.

5 - 8 SEPT 2024

The Box, Freespace,West Kowloon Cultural District, HONG KONG

In Cantonese

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