Young Theatre Makers 2024: Showcase & Discussion
13 & 14.7.2024 (Sat & Sun) 2:30pm
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre
How can theatre strengthen young people’s presentation and communication skills while nurturing their critical thinking? Over the years, The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection has provided schools with good stories filled with deep feelings and great questions that resonate with young people created by local and international playwrights under the Young Theatre Makers scheme. During the in-school and joint-school training, we focus on the process for students to analyse the scripts, connect to their own experiences, reflect and discuss the themes of the plays.
For aged 10 or above | Approx. 3 hours
Bilingual performance & discussion
Ticketing details
$120
Early-bird discount:
10% discount on or before 21 Jun
- 50% discount for full-time students, people with disabilities and the minder, senior citizens aged 60 or above and CSSA recipients.
- 10% discount applies to full-price tickets for each purchase of four or more tickets.
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Rundown
In order of appearance
EN = English performance | CN = Cantonese performance
13.7.2024 (Sat)
14.7.2024 (Sun)
Fifty-Fifty
Ho Fung College (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen) | EN
The Sweetness of a Sting
TWGHs Lui Yun Choy Memorial College | EN
Liam’s Story
Hong Kong Sea School | CN
The River of Youth
HKBUAS Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School | EN
Bye Bye Baby
Chinese YMCA Secondary School | EN
Hyenas
Ma On Shan St. Joseph’s Secondary School | EN
When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Tsung Tsin Christian Academy | EN
The Sweetness of a Sting
Semple Memorial Secondary School | EN
IQ.Rock
Youth College (International) – DILWL Site & Tsing Yi Site | EN
Franky
Immaculate Heart of Mary College | EN
Bye Bye Baby
A group of young people living in the era of social media who, in different ways, are struggling with life online.
Playwright : Åsa Lindholm
Translator : Edward Buffalo Bromberg
Fifty-Fifty
A play about families, and what happens when divorce tears them apart. What can be split? What can be shared? One cannot divide love. It is unsplittable.
Playwright : Milena Bogavac
Translators：Edward Buffalo Bromberg
Franky
A robot-building scientist must choose between losing his son forever and trying something that has never been done before. What happens when we take artificial intelligence to its extreme?
Playwrights：Dr Vicki Ooi & Thomas Lawson
Hyenas
A group of teenagers, like Hyenas in clans, are desperate to change their status and find their place in the world. It is about friendship, bullying and the fight for popularity.
Playwright : Anders Duus
Translator : Edward Buffalo Bromberg
IQ. Rock
This play received critical acclaim and describes the gulf between teacher and student due to difference in racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Playwright : Khairi Anwar
Translator : Jamal Raslan
Liam’s Story
Think about disability, support and friendship. A young man and a boy meet at a school for the disabled. They develop a friendship that changes both their lives but will it last?
Playwright : Sara Clifford
Translator : To Nga Ki
The River of Youth
Willard, a retired teacher, is blamed for ruining the life of a former student. He is forced to look back at the man he once was and to understand the consequences of his actions.
Playwright : Hasan Erkek
Translator : Jonathan Maurice Ross
The Sweetness of a Sting
Attempting to run away and escape his parents’ plans, Badger finds himself in a land beneath our feet that he cannot escape from. This fantastical story looks at what it means to be young – disconnected from nature, and from your identity.
Playwright : Chinonyerem Odimba
When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Three young men in a boy’s detention centre kidnap the centre’s warden and a young woman, who plans to conduct a study into juvenile delinquency. The boys demand a helicopter to rescue and set them free. Will they get what they wish for?
Playwright : Andreea Vălean
Translators: Cheryl Robson & Caludiu Trandafir
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