Roland Hung

I am currently a fourth year University student at the U of A. Drama, more specifically play writing, has always been my passion. I have taken drama throughout Jr. High and High School, and more recently, Drama 407 at the university. A highlight of productions I have been involved in ranges from “Us and Them" to “Romeo and Juliet” to a monologue from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for the Kiwanis Festival. I have been involved in various drama groups and productions within the community and church. One of which is called the ECHO drama team. We recently performed at the Attack of the Killer Fringe (Fringe 2003) as buskers at the circle show.

The first full-length play I wrote was Atlantis Episode IV: The Last Hope – a satire that revolved around the last days before Atlantis sank. Atlantis stems from a short story I wrote in grade ten for English class, which I later turned into a play. The play eventually won second place in the playwriting contest put on by Alberta Theatre Square and was produced for the COSY festival (COSY 2000). At that time, it was just amazing to see my words come alive on stage. It should be noted that I workshoped this play for the One Act Plays Festival at my school; and thus, I had a vision of how the play should look like on stage. It was truly quite the experience to see how someone would interpret your work.

Seeing my interest in playwriting, the Pastor gave me the opportunity to write short scenes for his sermons, and the Easter and Christmas services. Although, I would not consider any of those scenes that I wrote art, the opportunities kept me writing and helped develop my skills. One of the biggest productions that I was involved in at the Church was Exodus, a play about Moses, produced in March of 2001. This was a play that I wrote and directed.

Fallen is my third full-length play. It marks my growth as a playwright. It deviates from all the other plays that I have written in that it takes a darker turn to look at the sinister side humanity. As Natalie Goldberg once said, “Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget.” It is my hope that the audience will leave the theatre haunted with images that they can never forget; causing them to question and reflect upon the truth as they know it.