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Supported by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England
LUNCHEON MEAT ON THE BLUE DANUBE
Presented by Mindfulness Creative Hub
Saturday, 13 September
16:00
Media City, Manchester
The Story
What if the world you waited a lifetime to hear… was the very one you chose to leave behind?
After decades of deafness, a man regains his hearing through surgery. But on his 50th birthday, high up in a compact flat in one of Hong Kong’s towering public estates, he makes a quiet yet radical choice — to turn away from the sounds of the world and retreat into silence.
Within the walls of a home shaped by both love and loss, he begins to retrace his mother’s story. As memories surface and space closes in around him, he wrestles with the invisible threads that bind fate and happiness — searching not for clarity in sound, but for meaning in stillness.
Contemplative, quietly powerful, and deeply human, this is a story of a silence he chooses freely in a city that never pauses.
A performance that speaks straight to the heart — without ever raising its voice.
Playwright: Priscilla Poon Pik-Wan
Directors & Performers: Chris Sun Wai-Keung, Priscilla Poon Pik-Wan
Technical Consultant & Lighting Design sponsored by Cupcake Ltd.
With special thanks to Sabrina, Joey, Martin and Oscar
13 September (Saturday)
16:00
The Empty Space, 48 Kansas Ave, Media City, Manchester M50 2GL
Language: Cantonese with English captions
Price: £10-16
Age Guidance: 6+
Post-show talk after performance
Co-Director & Performer
CHRIS SUN
申偉強
Chris Sun is a prominent stage actor from Hong Kong, celebrated for his versatility and emotional depth across both classical and contemporary theatre. A graduate of the prestigious Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, he was swiftly invited to join the acclaimed Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, where he has since portrayed over a hundred compelling characters.
He has received sixteen Hong Kong Drama Awards nominations, winning four — including A Dream Like a Dream (Stan Lai), Whose Life is It Anyway? (Brian Clark), Art (Yasmina Reza), and Shed Skin (Hideki Noda). His work in Footprints in the Snow earned him the Outstanding Performance Award at the 10th Chinese Drama Festival.
Beyond acting, Chris works as a voice artist, director, writer and drama educator across both Hong Kong and the UK.
Playwright, Co-Director & Performer
Priscilla Poon
潘璧雲
Priscilla Poon is an actor, playwright, educator and editor whose career bridges the stage and the page. She holds a Master of Arts in Chinese from Lingnan University in Hong Kong. A leading performer with the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, she appeared in many major roles before becoming the company’s Literary Manager, where she curated and edited a wide range of creative initiatives and publications.
Her work spans drama, fiction, publishing and arts education, and she has been recognised with major awards across disciplines, including performance (Hong Kong Drama Awards), fiction (The Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese) and publishing (Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards).
Her published works include Wandering Cloud and A Snap Beyond Borders, and she continues to lead workshops that interweave theatre, literature and creative writing, now taking place across the UK.