Pretense / Recycling Times

Yan Yu and Harriet Yin-sze Chung

A double volume of new plays from Hong Kong Arts Festival, including Pretense, in which an older man from Hong Kong relives his intense, devastating relationship with a young woman in Shanghai and Recycling Times, about an intellectual who works in a recycling dump, compressing literary works along with garbage into bales of recycled paper.

About the Author

Yan Yu earned her MFA in Playwriting from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2009. Her plays include Chung Ying Theatre’s Daguomin Qisi Ji, Playwright Scheme’s Dragonfly and Cinematic Theatre’s Mainly Cloudy with Mist, Sunny Periods.

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