M1 Chinese Theatre Festival moves to Theatre Practice’s new Waterloo home

Alumna Melissa Leung is the co-creator of Fleet, which opens this year's M1 Chinese Theatre Festival.

'For theatre practitioners Janice Sze and Melissa Leung, it was the pain of losing a loved one recently that raised questions about life and death and led them to co-create Fleet.

Hong Konger Leung, 39, education director at The Theatre Practice, approached Chinese director Liu Xiaoyi, who is known for his experimental, non-linear approach to theatre, to work on the piece. Liu directed The Struggle: Years Later, a re-adaptation of late theatre pioneer Kuo Pao Kun's 1969 play The Struggle, at last year's festival.'

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