The Common Cold
Theatre
Description
Description
When loneliness causes a city-wide epidemic,
absolute apathy in human relationships is said to be the only way out…
A seemingly familiar city is ravaged by an epidemic – a cold with an extremely high fatality rate and its permanent cure improbable. Investigation by experts and governing rulers concludes that the disease is linked to: loneliness. To fight the epidemic, the government imposes a firm grip on such feelings, and introduces a number of measures: new homes for patients who have recovered with new family members assigned to ensure a non-lonely lifestyle, in order for them to become integrated into the normal society again. Suddenly, everyone is in the new profession of “family”. Forced to live together, they lead a lifestyle of being made transparent. Those who survived the disease will now also be spared from loneliness, or so they claim…
The Common Cold was adapted from an original novel by Hon Lai Chu, hailed as Hong Kong’s own Kafka, in addition to receiving the top ten Chinese novels by Yazhou Zhoukan, the Recommended Prize in the Fiction Category at the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature, the First Prize in the Medium-length Fiction category at the Unitas Literature and Fiction Prize for New Writers, as well as the China Times’ top ten recommended original Chinese books award. Her writing fuses together imagination and reality, critically inquiring into the human living conditions. The Common Cold is also veteran theatre director Lee Chun Chow’s first production for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre.
Playwright：Poon Pik Wan
Director：Lee Chun Chow
Choreographer：Mui Cheuk Yin
Cast：Wong Wai Chi; Alice Lau; Sun Wai Keung; Ko Hon Man; Ling Man Lung; Li Fung; K. T Yau Ka Hei; Man Sui Hing; Lui Si Lan; Cheung Ngar Lai; Yau Ting Fai; Lau Shau Ching; Wang Wei; Chan Kiu; Li Sik Lam; Chloe Lau
Set Designer：Yeun Hon Wai
Costume Designer：Ho Pui Shan Cindy
Lighting Designer：Yeung Tsz Yan
Composer & Sound Designer：Chan Wai Fat
Video Designer：Ziv Chun
Assistant Director：Lau Shau Ching
English Surtitle Translation：Joanna C. Lee
Producers：Marble Leung; Yvonne Pang
Deputy Producer：Sunnie Lai
Marketing：Anita Wong; Stephanie Mak; Karen Chan
Ticketing：Kevin Cheung; Matthew Kwong
Technical Director：Eddie Lam
Technical Manager：Lawrence Fung
Deputy Stage Manager：Chan Kwok Tat
Assistant Stage Manager：Dawn Tam
Stage Assistants：Kung Yiu San; Ng Sing Chi; Wong Wai Lok
Props Maker：Wong Man Yui
Wardrobe Supervisor：Annabel Yan
Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor：Peggy Ko
Wardrobe Assistants：Cheung Soo Chi; Lo Fung Cheung; Tse Sheung Man
Make-up & Hairdressing Master：He Mingsong
Make-up & Hairdressing Assistants：Ng Lai Chun; Tam Wai Wah
Chief Electrician：Chu Fung
Moving Light Programmers：Ip Hiu Tung; Bert Wong
Audio-visual Technician：Kee King Yin
Video Operator：Sin Fuk Shing
Surtitle Operator：Suki Wong
Backstage Master：Leung Kwok Hung
Set Constructor：Dick Ko Arts Production Co.
Video Equipment Contractor：M Square Design Management Ltd.
Promotional Graphic Designer：BERTAM
Promotional Photo Shooting：Pow@BLUER
Performance Photo Shooting：Cheung Chi Wai; Keith Sin@Hiro Graphics
House Programme Design：Kevin Lo@Southgate Design
House Programme Printing：G. L. Graphic & Printing Ltd.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Drama Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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$140
$280
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