THE slogan for the racing pages of one local paper claims none of its readers are poverty-stricken. In a week of newspaper price wars and out-of-business publishers comes Edward Lam's Wildlife In The Fast Lane.
Hailed as a study in debt, overdrafts and withdrawn VISA cards, this 'lexicon of poverty' is in reality quite different from the description in the press and publicity material.
The Chinese title of this show is warmly nostalgic of a series of colourful soft 'erotic' Cantonese films from the late 1960s and early 1970s featuring starlet Tina Ti.
The seven-word titles of these B movies generally refer to peeping toms, scoundrels and 'dirty old-men'.
Lam has effectively transferred this idea through a stream of modern Chinese 'limericks' into his new production.
Wildlife In The Fast Lane forms a trilogy of 'queer-ographical' theatre pieces.
