Christopher Fok
Theatre Practitioner
I worked closely with Christopher Fok on my Work in Process project. He helped me research on the theatre productions that I documented for the project. He was a great help while interviewing theatre practitioners, as he is interested in script writing and making productions of his own, as the founder of the collective Dark Matter Theatrics. I will be keeping an eye out for his future work.
“SCENE 31 – A PUBLIC CONFESSION
Actors with no masks surrounding the iconic, now fully painted mask.
ALL: I am scared of speaking. I am literally bursting with so many things I want to say but the fear. The fear of you. Of how what I feel is not enough and I know that’s not true. But love is not enough to keep any of us together. The words are not enough. I have looked into your face and found it wanting. Wanting more than me, more than what I have because I am not enough. And I can’t blame you, because I want so much more from myself as well. So you will sit on your side and I on mine and we will not discuss, none of those heart-to-heart talks I’m so fond of. We will only glance because that is all the love we can steal from another stranger, which is a pity, when all we ever had to do was to open our mouths and ask for more.
They gaze at the audience with small smiles on their faces. It is kindness. The lights go down. In the darkness, we hear the loud crack of the mask being shattered. Curtain.”
— extract from Christopher Fok, Loud Mouth Loving, 2013