{"id":11237,"date":"2025-11-13T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:44:31","slug":"review-in-a-perfect-world-is-a-hong-kong-play-with-a-brilliant-cast-and-a-bleak-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11237","title":{"rendered":"Review | In a Perfect World is a Hong Kong play with a brilliant cast and a bleak outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Not long into the time-jumping, three-hour-long play, we are plunged into a not-too-distant future. It is a terrifying reality in which the worst-case scenarios \u2013 the ones we only suggest sardonically and not wholly seriously today \u2013 have come to pass.<\/p>\n

In this universe, created by award-winning film director and scriptwriter Jun Li Jun-shuo, Germany has fallen under Russian rule by 2030, and the United States has been wrecked by civil war by 2036.<\/p>\n

Over seven decades, we watch as three generations of Chinese people living in the same house in New York\u2019s Chinatown<\/span> are crushed, buoyed or simply swept away by the great, unforgiving wheels of history.<\/div>\n

Presented by Hong Kong\u2019s foremost independent theatre company, On & On Theatre Workshop, this believable, ambitious and grim drama follows in the success of the troupe\u2019s Flowing Warblers 2.0<\/em>, an update of a 2024 work that revolves around Hongkongers living abroad.<\/p>\n

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A scene from In a Perfect World. Photo: Snap_Shot_Sammy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a Perfect World<\/em> features 20 closely intertwined characters. Played by a cast of 10 actors, these characters encompass a broad range of sociopolitical backgrounds \u2013 from left to right \u2013 and perspectives gleaned from a diaspora stretching from Hong Kong to Taishan to New York to Berlin to Guyana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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