One September Saturday morning in 1990, Tom Hope, Richard Smith and Dave Anderson sat in a Hong Kong bar struggling for a name to put on their Fringe Club submission to perform their as yet unwritten play in the coming January Fringe Club Festival. As their voices and those at the neighbouring table rose, a seriously hungover soul whispered ‘Not so loud, please!’ – and the name was born…
Since then, the Not So Louds have presented (on average) one original English language drama per year in Hong Kong and London, including:
1991 – Home Run
1992 – Serious Loss of Face; Bigger Than The Beatles
1993 – Chicken Wing
1994 – Hong Kong Hamlet
1995 – Soap For The Untouchables; Stop Press; The Maclehose Trail
1996 – Slippery Mountain; Amah Drama
1997 – The One Legged Puppet Show
1998 – At Sixes And Sevens
1999 – Tongue Tied
2004 – Part Time Punks
2006 - The A Grade Lads; The Mouse Queen
2007 - Flying Fish In The Sun
2008 – Slippery Mountain; The Making of YK Lee
To celebrate our 18th year, the Hong Kong Fringe Club is hosting a series of playreadings
of new
original language drama plus a retrospective ‘Speed of Sound’ exhibition to run in
conjunction
with The Making of Mr Lee during June 2008.