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Human Acts

Development

Workshop Reading, Presented by Liquid On Stage, Toronto, April 26, 2025

Staged Reading, Produced by YuTheatre Toronto, Toronto, September 13, 2025

Polyphonic Residency by rice&beans theatre, March 10-21, 2026
Director & Collaborator: Nick Fangzheng Wang
Dramaturg: Derek Chan
Projection Design: June Hsu
Performers: Howard Dai, David Bloom, Amy Newman, Jenny Zhou


一张作废的机票,
一个空了的食碗,
一只被消音的锣,
一扇无法推开的门,
和一场不被允许到来的春天。
A cancelled plane ticket.
An emptied food bowl.
A silenced gong.
A door that won’t open.
And a spring that was never allowed to arrive.

Human Acts (76 Days) is a bilingual, multimedia theatre work set during a citywide lockdown. Through the fragmented stories of an elderly foreign couple, a mysterious woman trapped in a red telephone booth, a middle-aged woman banging a gong for medicine for her dying father, a ghostly young man, a starving dog, and a spokesman of “positive energy”, the play explores how collective violence infiltrates daily life, and how silence, repetition, and disappearance become the grammar of survival.

Built from text, projection, sound, and movement, Human Acts unfolds as a landscape where time loops endlessly, and human gestures turn mechanical. The play asks: What remains after history is erased? Who remembers those who could not leave?

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