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Class 7A Drama Group is a local professional theatre group funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The group is good at performing with a minimalist and unrestrained way based on quality texts. It focuses on the most compelling part of the play and highlights the most “theatrical” and “dramatic” elements which move the audience to generate an experience that cannot be obtained from other forms of media; it also puts the impact of the theatre into full play. Some of its recent productions are 2097: A Fairy Tale of Two Cities, The Statute of Magic for 2018 “International Arts Carnival”; the musicals Love to Forget, SEVEN: Lost and Lust, daddi, The Big Happy Dying; Mother Courage in China for the 10th Chinese Drama Festival, The Memorandum for the World Cultures Festival 2013 - Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe; Macbeth 2.0; The Chalk Circle in China and the Text Re-experimenting series, etc. In addition to performing, the group is also a pioneer in merging theatrical methods to the instruction of formal academic subjects. It has served more than 100 schools, and has been dedicated to the development of educational theatre for learning of classical Chinese literature through drama.

Class 7A Drama Group produced the performance and pre-performance talk of Interpretation of Classical Chinese Literature through Drama in 2015/16 and 2018/19, successfully adopted classical Chinese essays designated for the new Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) Curriculum and presented them as an educational drama. The initiative was enthusiastically received by participating teachers and students. Riding on its success, Class 7A Drama Group will continue to roll out performance and pre-performance talk of Interpretation of Classical Chinese Literature through Drama III this year to bring senior secondary school students another series of educational dramas that can help them learn about classical Chinese and allow them to appreciate theatre. The group has invited Dr Flora Lui as the project’s Chinese advisor. The curriculum and script of this programme would be created by the group’s Artistic Director Dr Leung Shing-him (aka Yatyau). The pre-performance talk enables students to grasp the main points of a few classical Chinese essays. Professional actors would be demonstrating and explaining the contents to enhance the educational impact of the play.

Performances in Interpretation of Classical Chinese Literature through Drama III will be based on three of the 12 designated classical Chinese essays for the new Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) Curriculum, namely On the Six States (《六國論》), Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease (《逍遙遊》) and Encouraging Learning (《勸學》). Complemented by contemporary, minimalist stage treatment, the classical Chinese texts are vividly and stereoscopically presented on stage. As students are exposed to theatrical art, teachers can also use the drama as a focal point for classroom instruction.

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