| City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama containing full-length shorter plays and excerpts of longer plays that have been written for Hong Kong performers and audiences, as well as in some cases international audiences. All the plays were written in the last ten years and so capture and reflect the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene. The richness and diversity of the subject-matter, the wide range of theatre styles, and the engaging quality of the dramatic writing, all make this collection both an essential adjunct to the 2001 prose fiction and poetry collection City Voices and at the same time a ground-breaking, independent record of an incredibly fertile period in Hong Kong's recent creative life history. |