Today, although the Hong Kong society is in general very prosperous, behind the scenery is life filled with pressures in many aspects. This certainly affects the growth of our newer generations. In recent years, incidents of self-mutilation and suicide of young people have occurred more frequently, which has drawn attention to the rash attitude of young people in dealing with emotional problems and life. As an organization dedicated to promoting life education in Hong Kong, WILL IN ACTION hopes to instill to young people a positive attitude towards life, and assist them to avoid of passive and negative emotions. We hope that students can take a life education class easily and happily in the form of drama performance, through which to break the taboo of talking about life and death as much as possible. Eventually to prevent more similar incidents happen.
Thanks to the Board of Management of Chinese Permanent Cemeteries (BMCPC) for their full support by sponsoring this “Life Education School Drama Tour” titled “Happy Running Line”. Together with the “Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Association”, “Po Leung Kuk” and “St. James” “Welfare Society” as our supporting partners, we set secondary school students as our main target audience. The repertoire echoes the modern life of young people, and encourages young people to learn to live in the moment, properly handle emotional problems and cherish life. Forty school plays have already been completed for the 2019-2021 school year. In view of the enthusiastic participation of the school, we has gratefully received the support of BMCPC to add 60 more drama performances, making a total of 100 performances.
This dram tour is an interactive short play called “Happy Running Line”. The main storyline is that young people nowadays love to run their live broadcast social on media. They are motivated by receiving as much “likes” from their social media followers as possible. Through direct interaction between the drama actors and the students, students not only watch the performance as an audience, but also interact with the actors in the process to understand the pressure faced by the people in the play and provide relief methods. We hope that through this participation, students can realize that every word they say has the opportunity to have an unexpected impact on others.