Foreword Dino Mahoney My life as a playwright began in Hong Kong in 1993 and for the next ten years I found myself, both as a playwright and later as a theatre critic for the South China Morning Post, becoming part of an increasingly vibran t and evolving theatre community. The last decade of the twentieth centur y an d the beginning o f the new century ha s been a time o f chang e fo r bot h Cantones e an d Englis h theatr e i n Hon g Kong . The 1990 s wa s a liminal decad e o f shiftin g identitie s — th e Westernize d Hon g Kon g Chines e populatio n returning t o a 'motherland ' generall y perceive d a s being culturally alien , while members o f the large British expatriate community were getting used