Laboratory
Alice Theatre Laboratory (ATL) is a Hong Kong theatre company registered as a charitable organization, and recipient of a three-year grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. ATL is devoted to experimental performances. Works in previous seasons included Seven Boxes Possessed of Kafka (Hong Kong première, rerun, Shanghai tour, Beijing tour, Macao tour and Taipei tour), Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Hong Kong première, rerun, and Beijing tour), Beckett on Stage II: Reminiscence & Traces, The Maids, 1001 Nights of Pasolini, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hong Kong première and Beijing tour), Endgame (Hong Kong première, rerun, and Shanghai tour), Ten Utterances from Dreams, Once the Muse Speaks (Hong Kong première, Shanghai tour, Taipei tour and Beijing tour), Hamletmachine (Hong Kong première and Wuzhen tour) and The Hong Kong Three Sisters (Hong Kong première, Edinburgh tour and Taipei tour). There critically acclaimed works were nominated for and received a number of awards for both the Hong Kong Drama Awards and the Hong Kong Theatre Libre. CNNGo has acclaimed ATL as “one of the five most watchable Hong Kong theatre companies”.
ATL is also a pioneer in Drama and Theatre Education. Promoting Drama in Education and Drama as a subject, ATL has been producing Theatre-in-Education programmes that suit the local education system since 2002. In the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2016, ATL received the Award for Arts Education (Non-School Division) Certificate of Merit.
