NEW INTEPRETATION
Playwright Chip Tsao and director Pang Ho-cheung have re-written the life of legendary Chinese writer Eileen Chang Ai-ling in Recycled. The Cantonese play will be staged at the Drama Theatre of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from tomorrow until February 24.
Starring pop singer/ actress Karen Mok, Recycled is an imaginative 'mockumentary' of the life and times of Chang, a literary figure who was as contradictory and revolutionary as Virginia Woolf in the western literary world. Chang's popular novels such as Love in a Fallen City were notable for their depictions of Shanghai in the 1940s.
Chang left the mainland in 1949 and died alone in the United States in 1995.
The new interpretation is about how the Shanghainese novelist would have coped with the changes if she had chosen to stay in China.
The performances start at 7.45pm with two matinee shows at 2.30pm on February 21 and 22.
Tickets at $250, $200 and $150 (half-price for students) are available through HK Ticketing on 31 288 288.
