In 2023, French playwright and director Nicolas Kerszenbaum spent two months in Hong Kong. During his time in residence, he conducted the interviews and explored the landscapes that would inspire his play, Good Fortune. 

How did Kerszenbaum adapt his experiences and encounters into a play? In this workshop, he will guide participants through the text and creative process of Good Fortune and suggest a few simple exercises to help them write their own texts. He will also invite participants to act out selected scenes from the show before seeing the final version onstage. 

This four-hour workshop offers both an exploration of writing a text, and the chance to receive professional direction from a director and playwright on his own texts.

Nicolas Kerszenbaum

Instructor

A director and playwright with a degree in performing arts and economics, Nicolas Kerszenbaum founded the theatre group franchement, tu in 2005, with which he has created over twenty works.  

He recently collaborated with the Thai company B-Floor Theatre on A Thai Mirror (2022) and Persephone (2022). His other works include A Beautiful Stranger (2019) for La Poudrerie – le Théâtre des Habitants, Two Ghost Cities (2018) in La Habana, and Swann s'inclina poliment (Artcena Winner, 2017), which was adapted from the novel Un amour de Swann by Marcel Proust. He was also the writer of A New Hero (2014), which has been performed over 150 times.  

In 2023, he adapted Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the form of a night walk in a forest and was awarded the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs for his work Kairos (2023), a four-episode theatre series.  

He has also worked with the Tréteaux de France – Centre Dramatqiue National on the creation of L'enfance à l'oeuvre (Festival Avignon, 2017),Oblomov (2020), and Ping Pong, which has been performed more than 300 times. He is a regular theatre teacher for La Sorbonne University and several French high schools.

Ticketing Info

Free to the public. Register here from 13 March onwards.

This programme is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region