Movements as Strategies: On & On Theatre Workshop’s Contemporary Writing for Theatre and Theatre Horizon’s New Directors’ Movement

At the end of 2018, Theatre Horizon broadcasted the awards ceremony of the New Directors’ Movement on Facebook live. Chan Chu-hei, the mastermind behind the New Directors’ Movement and the MC of the event, took the opportunity to explain that the programme could be better understood as a “movement”, not as a mere “project”.1 Delivered in a casual tone, Chan’s remark was nevertheless a reaffirmation of a manifesto. A movement, as we know it, is devoted to a cause—it unites people who share the same vision and advocate for it, or who seek to create change in the world. Indeed, it is more imaginative and inspiring to call it a movement rather than a project.