project

Near Dawn

solo performance · Synesthesians · Ages 10+ · China

One Person Show World Premiere

About the Project

NEAR DAWN is
A solo play about a boy, a fly and a corpse on one breezy summer night. A metamorphic human experience on one particular night. A hybrid of fiction & truth, absurdity & solemnity with a mixed timeline of past, present, and prophecy. A miniature portrait of contemporary rural China in the dawn of the nation’s largest economic reform. A life condensed in 45mins.

Inspired by a true event, NEAR DAWN draws from the tradition and history of China’s underdeveloped countryside in the early 1980s, and presents a story about belonging and solitude.

Production Team

ZOE WANG

zoe wang *

writer/ director/ producer
Viola  He

viola he *

producer
Daisy Zheng

daisy zheng *

production manager
beibei hu

beibei hu *

set designer
Zheqin Li

zheqin li *

sound designer
Mengziyu  Lu

mengziyu lu *

lighting & set designer
Susan Wang

susan wang *

graphic designer
Ruobei Wang

ruobei wang *

stage manager
Junfu Chen

junfu chen *

lighting & set designer
Boya Zhu

boya zhu *

costume designer

* Fringe Veteran

near dawn