Progress vs tradition redux, 14 years on

THEATRE company Toy Factory Productions (TFP) is revisiting a play that it last mounted 14 years ago.

Prism explores the struggle between "development and progress" and the erosion of a nation's heritage and culture.

It was first commissioned by the Japan's Kageboushi Theatre Company in 2003, as a six-country collaboration, but that was a more abstract rendering of the theme as it was presented in the region as a multi-cultural theatrical performance.

TFP will stage a new version of the play as its first production for the year, but is honing it to speak…