Directed and written by HKADC Emerging Artist Grant receiver Cathy SK Lam who created acclaimed play “The Immigration Lottery”, “Wither On the Vine” and “Confessions”. Smoking With Grandma is a brand new writing about refugees, receiving critical acclaim from both Hong Kong and Adelaide Fringe 2017.
Maia called 1996 the ‘year of lost’, the year before the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, also the year her grandma passed away. Her grandma had spent most of her life in Tiu Keng Leng, a remote island in Hong Kong which used to be a refugee village, housing former Kuomintang (KMT) officials and followers who had escaped to Hong Kong from China after KMT was defeated.Tiu Keng Leng was demolished that same year. Just the night before Tiu Keng Leng was going to disappeared from the map, Maia goes back to her late grandma’s squatter. When Maia unveils the buried secrets of her grandma, she wants to go smoking with grandma.
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The project is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of Hong Kong Administrative Region.
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