A powerful contemporary reinterpretation inspired by the book, Journey to the West, this immersive performance follows an international student Wukong navigating the tension between parental love, expectations and personal freedom. Blending traditional shadow puppetry with digital technology, the work explores family bonds, identity, boundaries and coming-of-age across cultures.

Space access information: Entrance to main house and accessible toilet is via level entrance to halls to halls from Lauriston Street (slight downward slope to floor in foye). Accessible toilet off ground floor foyer, adjacent to space.

main house

Wukong and Kong

A powerhouse of pure performance. From bardic breakfasts to music, dance, circus: we showcase the uplifting, unsettling, side-splitting, thought-provoking at our festival hub with courtyard café-bar. Part of the vibrant, vivacious variety of C ARTS: a curated programme of international, independent work taking place at multiple city-centre locations, and online, in our 35th year at the Fringe. It’s a festival all of its own. Make sure you see it all.

Wukong and Kong

Central Drama Lab | CCW China Season

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