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Improvisational theatre group Sciouspace stages doomsday parties

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A doomsday party held by theatre group Sciouspace in Kwai Chung.Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Jennifer Cheng

While most people expect to live on when the Mayan calendar ends, next Friday's "doomsday" has proved to be an opportunity to ponder the big questions of life - such as who would you least like to spend your last day with.

"The boss" was one answer at a "Doomsday Party" held by improvisation group Sciouspace in Kwai Hing on Thursday as part of the Hong Kong People's Fringe Festival. The audience gave answers to doomsday questions which 10 actors then dramatised off the cuff.

The actors improvised the miserable scenario of an employee stuck in an office with his workaholic boss on doomsday along with an insurance agent - an equally unpopular choice for company on mankind's final day.

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The 20 people in the audience were asked if they believed the world would end on December 21, and all said no. But that didn't deter them from answering soul-searching questions like "who is a person you've lost touch with that you most want to see before you die?" One of the answers was an ex-lover.

The actors then dramatised a scenario where a woman goes behind her husband's back to meet an ex-boyfriend by the sea - a popular locale to spend doomsday.

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