Who Killed the Elephant
The first original play produced by "Contemporary Writing for Theatre" project, Who Killed the Elephant tours to Shanghai, Beijing (Nanluoguxiang Theatre Festival) and Guangzhou in 2013. Premiered in Hong Kong 2012, it was invited to Taipei Woman's Theatre Festival the same year, and was awarded "Best Performance 2012" by Guling St. Theatre. It attempts to rethink such concepts as discipline, mass, identity, state surveillance and development in relations to the colonial past and (neo-)colonial present of Hong Kong. The work draws inspirations from an essay by George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (1936) about a British colonial policeman in Burma.
Date: 25-27/5/2012
Venue: Cattle Depot Theatre
Playwright and Director: Vee Leong
