Collaboration with other Fringes

“Fringe Shanghai” and the Hong Kong Fringe Club jointly presented five outstanding non-mainstream theatre groups from Mainland China during the 2008 City Festival. Titled “The Free, Young and Daring – New Theatre from Mainland China Since 1997”, this series of performances is a highlight in the City Festival’s “Creative China” theme program.

Creative China

The Free, Young and Daring- New Theatre from Mainland China Since 1997
Growing up amidst China’s economic boom and its one-child policy, this generation of artists is young and daring, free of the collective memory of the country’s political events. They detest the mundane and are proud of being different. Unfettered by the mainstream theatre’s demands for commercial success, they depict life in China in a language rarely employed before now in Chinese theatre. ”Fringe Shanghai” is delighted to work with the Hong Kong Fringe Club to present recent works by five groups that emerged after 1997 in Shandong, Guangxi, Guangdong, Beijing and Shanghai. They believe in a dialogue between the mainstream and the avant-garde, and they choose to work outside of the mainstream to establish a relatively independent environment for their creations.

Kwong Wai-lap
Director of Programme Planning, Fringe Shanghai

“Fringe Shanghai” & HK Fringe Club Jointly Present at City Festival 2008 “The Free, Young and Daring - New Theatre from Mainland China since 1997”