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A TALE OF JEALOUSY, SUSPICION AND MURDER

A TALE OF JEALOUSY, SUSPICION AND MURDER

The play We Are Gay was expected to debut in the 2020 Hong Kong Arts Festival but had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of the pandemic. In its 2022 premiere, the work is presented as a newly rehearsed and designed version. ...

WHEN DANCE MEETS SONG: A DIPTYQUE OF FEMALE VOICES

WHEN DANCE MEETS SONG: A DIPTYQUE OF FEMALE VOICES

The theme of women battling adversity resounds through Heart of Coral and Women Like Us, two chamber operas previously staged at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, in 2013 and 2021 respectively. The two operas tell the stories of three women who strive in different times and circumstances, but whose lives are each shaped by the conflicts between love and fate. At the 50th HKAF.......

<i>Women Like Us</i> and <i>Journey to the West Rewind</i>: Attempts at Writing New Life

Women Like Us and Journey to the West Rewind: Attempts at Writing New Life

When representing literature in the performing arts, artists demonstrate different interpretations and expressions, while the meanings of works change with time. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Women Like Us and Journey to the West Rewind were deferred until the 49th Hong Kong Arts Festival....

Towards a New Language of Theatre

Towards a New Language of Theatre

In a year when a previously unknown virus spread like wildfire across the globe, theatre was forced to swiftly adapt to a new reality, branching out into new formats and production means. The result has been an enrichment of theatrical language by a raft of new insights and emotional responses....

The Four Bandits Musical

The Four Bandits Musical

Two years ago, the Hong Kong Arts Festival began commissioning local artists to create a musical about the young Sun Yat-sen. First, they brought composer Peter Kam on board, then director Eugene Ma, playwright Sunny Chan and lyricist Chris Shum joined the team, and the Yat-sen creative quartet began to take shape....

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French Tragicomedy

The idea of tragicomedy in drama dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, but in France an assumption that elevated tragic characters and low comic ones ought not to share a stage was generally accepted well into the 17th century. ...

Painting with human beings in space and time

David Mead talks to John Neumeier about the works his Hamburg Ballet are bringing to the 2019 Hong Kong Arts Festival and his outlook on dance...

Sibelius and <i>Kullervo</i>

"I would not wish to tell a lie in art …… But I think I am now on the right path. I now grasp those Finnish, purely Finnish tendencies in music less realistically but more truthfully than before", says Sibelius in regard to Kullervo. This epic piece precipitates his new, modern Finnish style in ways that were to inform the rest of his career....

2018 HKAF Festival PLUS: Full Programme Revealed!

Emerge from the Festival's concert halls and theatres and follow Festival PLUS on a journey across the unique spaces of Hong Kong. The array of activities on offer will enrich your Festival experience, allowing you to delve deeper into the creative process behind the performances, gaining new insight and perspective while engaging with the artists who create the magic on stage. ...