Theatre

Could we still find happiness after a nuclear explosion?

Yan Pat To is the first ethnic Chinese playwright awarded by the Berlin Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt with his ground-breaking work A Concise History of Future China. In collaboration with dramaturge Dick Wong, Yan tackles another thought-provoking issue that is closely related to our lives through Happily ever after nuclear explosion. Two performers lead the audience into the post-nuclear-explosion world through daily objects, video presentation and installation.

A man and a woman from the nuclear contaminated areas emerge on stage. She talks of the preceding catastrophe and the life after it. He opens his mouth but there is no sound-just a severe gag reflex. To evade isolation and social exclusion, they return to their hometown, presumably now a dead city. At the epicentre of the catastrophe, to their surprise, is a vibrant nature where animals live freely and flowers blossom, no more lives destroyed, and everything is bright and beautiful…