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melting pot of taboos

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Edward Lam is not a man who is afraid to confront taboos. But as if one issue is not enough, the controversial choreographer is now combining the subjects of homosexuality, education, theatre and religion in one production.

The tantalising name alone - Hot And Spicy Acts Of The Apostles - is probably sufficient to attract threats of hell and damnation, but Lam, who last year received criticism over a production poster of a naked man with computer-deleted genitals, is undeterred.

'When you come into an Edward Lam theatre you know you are going to be confronted by sensitive issues. I am not going to tell you how to think, just 'please think',' he says.

'I never try to be controversial. But I see things that not a lot of people agree with and I have a right to express what I think and believe.

'Just look at how Jesus was criticised for saying what he believed in.

'Last year, when there was controversy over the poster I suffered a lot from people pointing fingers at me.' Lam, who splits his time between Hong Kong and London, has worked on Apostles for only a month but has planned it for some time; it started when he was reading the Bible.

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