Curators Face to Face

Curated around the theme Becoming Real, this year’s Hong Kong International Black Box Festival presents four world-renowned productions that challenge our perceptions of reality in different ways and encourage audiences to question their reading of the everyday. In a world where the boundaries between what is real and unreal have become blurred, where social media is flooded with factual and fake information, where anything goes in the competition for hit rates and profit, and where AR and VR technologies develop so quickly that we question the reliability of what we feel and perceive, it can be hard not to feel drained and isolated. But if the real world community around us breaks down, where can we create a new sense of belonging? Could theatre, one of the oldest art forms, be a place for us to come together and face the challenges ahead? In this session, festival co-curators Fung Wai Hang and Low Kee Hong talk face to face with Lai Sim Fong about this year’s festival, about the world we live in, and about their observations of contemporary theatre and how artists respond to the circumstances around them.
 
 

 

Free admission. Limited capacity on a first come, first served basis.