The Young Hunger Artist K

Kafka's Classic X Dung Kai-cheung's Creation X New Generation Interpretation

K, the city's most popular and youngest hunger performer, challenges the limit of fasting for 100 consecutive days!

While transferring at a subway platform, young girl K suddenly hears a calling from within. She sits down on the ground, becoming a hunger artist who performs through fasting. What she doesn't expect is that her fasting will lead to worship, adulation, voyeurism, exploitation, attacks, pity, treatment, and contempt... In her subconscious, the inherited traits of a hunger artist from her father vaguely emerge. However, in the generation she lives in, when hunger is consumed and art degrades into entertainment, is true hunger artistry still possible?

This creation draws its concept from "A Hunger Artist," a work said to best embody Kafka's mentality and predicament. Newly interpreted by renowned local author Dung Kai-cheung, it incorporates local and youth elements and employs accessible, absurd, and dark humorous approaches.

Date: 30/7-1/8/2010

Venue: Cattle Depot Theatre

Director: Indy Lee

Playwright: Dung Kai-cheung