Fringe Club
Ends Saturday
Most theatre productions involve months of rehearsals and fine-tuning before opening in front of an audience. Hong Kong's Not So Loud Theatre Company shortens this process to just one week.
In Fringe Firsts, a festival celebrating original English-language dramas, the company presents three play-reading dramas, a full-production comedy and showcases an exhibition of photos, posters and scripts from its 18-year history.
The play-readings feature scripts by three writers using three different casts.
'The dramas are unperformed and unpublished, involving other writers [not part of Not So Loud] and a wider pool of actors to generate bigger interest in theatre and the company,' says Neil Harris, curator of the festival.
All the dramas are performed in one afternoon at the Fringe Club, giving a glimpse of the theatre process from the early stages. The actors will be roughly dressed in costume and reading from the script as they perform.
