City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English

by Mike Ingham and Xu Xi

Book Overview

City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong performers and audiences. All the plays were written in the last ten years and so capture and reflect the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene - a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon in view of the 1997 return to China Mainland sovereignty. The richness and diversity of the subject-matter, the wide range of theatre styles from the naturalistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622097480
• ISBN13: 9789622097483
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"