In Between

Pondering the question of humanity at a historical crossroad
 
Amid post-war Japan’s unprecedented economic recession, the Japanese National Railways (JNR) was faced with a huge deficit leading to large-scale layoffs meeting with protests from the workers’ union. The union, the government, United States Forces Japan, representatives from business circles and JNR personnel gather in a tense meeting. Tetsujin Shimoyama has just begun his tenure as the inaugural JNR director. He finds himself at a crossroad. Should he stop the trains that are about to derail? Or let the trains run, tearing the future apart?

 

Playwright Ming Lai’s early play, Three Impaired Monkeys, portray family conflict. For this work, he returns to the topic of humanity, choosing a story from a foreign land, taking the audience across time, space and sentiments along a volatile journey, hoping to find a clear vista in the mist.
 
 
 
Text Testing Zone is a new project where HKREP provides venue and basic technical support, enabling playwrights with potential to put on new works, testing the quality of their works, and enabling further revisions and refinement in the hopes of future fully-fledged productions.