The Final Exam: Gao Kao

What if the most important exam of your life became a battle you had to physically fight? On the day of the Gaokao — China’s high-stakes university entrance examination — a student enters the exam hall expecting to prove her future. Instead, she finds herself fighting against her own examiners, each representing a different subject and a different definition of success. Through physical theatre, stage combat, multimedia projection and storytelling, The Final Exam: Gao Kao explores the pressure to achieve, the expectations placed on young people, and the struggle to discover your own voice in a world full of “correct answers”. Inspired by the experiences of students navigating intense educational systems, this powerful new production asks: When everything you have been taught tells you what to become, how do you decide who you really are? A bold and emotional theatrical journey about ambition, identity and the courage to question.

Company

The Whisper Current Productions

Venue

Bridewell Theatre

Ages

12 and over