Founded by the British Council in 1979, Chung Ying Theatre Company (Chung Ying) is now a registered charitable organisation and one of Hong Kong's leading professional theatrical arts companies, financially supported by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.  Led by Artistic Director Dominic Cheung, Chung Ying dedicates itself to producing quality stage productions, and drama education and outreach programmes, with an aim to promote theatrical arts, facilitate cultural exchanges and enrich the city's cultural life.  Our productions are full of local characteristics while with an international perspective.

Throughout the 45 years, Chung Ying has staged more than 360 productions, receiving 100 awards in the previous 31 Hong Kong Drama Awards Presentation Ceremony, and has toured to many cities around the world for cultural exchange.

As the first local theatre company to integrate the example of the UK's 'Theatre-in-Education' movement into its work, Chung Ying has hosted over 5 770 schools touring performances, recorded around 900 000 student attendances and has won plaudits from the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.  Chung Ying embraces tertiary institutions, primary and secondary schools and community specific organisations through Drama-in-Education programmes, and inherits local culture with oral history theatre programmes.

Every generation is met with its own challenges.  In the 60s, Uncle Chun moved to Hong Kong to pursue his dreams.  Three decades later, his eldest son, Tak, relocated to Canada while his youngest remained in Hong Kong, and Uncle Chun returned to his hometown to live out the rest of his retirement.  The trio found homes in three separate cities.  In 2030, Tak, retiring and divorced, returned to Hong Kong, where his son seeks his future.  Aside from paying a visit to his brother, Tak is also tasked with a mission from his ex-wife.

The play visualises the past via the lens of the 21st century.  Once upon a time, those eager to make a good living found themselves in Hong Kong.  At retirement, many of them returned to their hometowns in search of their roots.  But for their descendants who were born and raised in Hong Kong, is returning to the city not - in itself - a search for one's roots?

30 years ago, Cheung Tat-ming wrote for Chung Ying Far Way Home – a comedic portrayal of separated families that took home the first Hong Kong Drama Awards' Best Script recognition.  Three decades later, revered theatre practitioner Elton Lau puts an end to this family's unfinished business through a vision of the future.  Chung Ying invites the old cast and members to put on a cross-generational performance of Far Way Home for the first part of the show, followed by the final ending for the search of home in the second half.