Living Assembly

An Interview with Sifan Shao

What moved me most when I first read the play wasn’t any particular scene, but a sense of reality that felt very close to everyday life. The situations depicted in the text are simple and restrained, without any attempt to heighten the emotion, yet they gave me a powerful sense of life unfolding before my eyes.

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Terre-Ville

The play does not set out to give its audience an answer. It hopes instead to offer a sense of strength: a quiet but genuine belief that what we live through can make us stronger, more dignified and prouder.

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Les Bonnes

Claire and Solange are far more than simply sisters. How do they imitate one another? How do they cling to each other even as they resist? How do they become the ‘other’ in their fantasies? They seem to me like projections of one another, each an ‘other self’: dependent yet rejecting, imitating yet wanting to destroy the other. There is repression, longing, jealousy, adoration, resentment and a love that cannot be spoken.

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Mon Petit Prince

Our search for the Little Prince began by gathering whatever childhood photographs we could still find: speaking with the children we once were, and looking to them for traces of the Little Prince.

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I_Shenzhen: Conversations from the Creative Workshop

As I listened to you earlier, I kept thinking: what makes something theatre?

If we’re making theatre, theatre rooted in everyday life, then we’re not organising an exhibition or a conference.

We’re not trying to explain things to the audience in an illustrative way: “Look, this is what I think, and now I’m going to explain it to you.”

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I_Shenzhen

There is no doubt that Shenzhen will be warm this June: not only with the heat of a southern summer, but also with the warmth of ordinary people's stories.

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