project

Near Dawn

solo performance · Synesthesians · Ages 10+ · 45 mins · 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
Ruobei Wang

ruobei wang 

stage manager
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
Boya Zhu

boya zhu 

costume designer
Susan Wang

susan wang 

graphic designer
Junfu Chen

junfu chen 

lighting & set designer

* Fringe Veteran

near dawn