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Thursday 29 |
Tuesday 3 |
Sunday 8 |
Music
Golden China Artistic Group
HK City Hall, Theatre, 8pm, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
Tommy Chung, Hat Trick
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621 |
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
The Ting Tings
HITEC, Star Hall, 8pm, $580, $380, Tel: 31 288 288
The Ting Tings are Katie White on vocals, guitar and bass drum and Jules De Martino on vocals, drums and electronics. From day one, the two decided to write music just for the sheer fun of it, which explains the impromptu sounds and DIY elements that are their signature. Jules’s style is more experimental, playing around with his drum kit and effect boxes, whereas Katie is more pop-inclined. Such musical combination results in a string of energetic, catchy pop tunes that are also experimental, injecting a breath of freshness to the pop scene.
Triage
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Theatre
Binded-feet Liu Jinding Crashes
Four Barricades
Sang Ngai Cantonese Opera
HK PolyU, Jockey Club Auditorium, 7:30pm, $240, $160, $90,
Tel: 2734 9009
Starlight Avenue
Flying Child ProDuctions Ltd
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $490, $390, $290, $250, $190, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details) |
Film
A Challenge of Love
Director: Wong Tin-lam
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 2:30pm, $30, Tel; 2734 9009
(See 31 January 2008)
A Perfect Match
Director: Chiang Wai-kwong
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 5pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Wszystko na Sprzedaz
(Everything For Sale)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
HK Science Museum, Lecture Hall, 7pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
The leading man of a film has gone missing just before the shooting starts. The director, his wife and friends exhaust all means looking for him, only to discover that he has died; how is this all going to end? The film is actually in memory of Zbigniew Cybulski who died in a car accident. Though without Cybulski, he is everywhere in the film with his presence felt all over as if he has just been at the locations: his wine glass, cigarette butt, unfinished poem, his breath, a running faucet in the bathroom… drawing the comparison between making a film and recreating a deceased man. All the actors (including Cybulski’s widow Elzbieta Czyzewska) willingly played themselves. They followed Cybulski’s footsteps, talking about him and visiting places with his traces. Its multi-layered narrative and film-within-a-film has blended fiction with authentic memories. Not only is it a memorial on Cybulski but also the most personal of Wajda’s work.
Zycie Rodzinne (Family Life)
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 6pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
30-year-old Wit works at a design firm at Silesia when he receives a letter from home urging his return to see his sick father. When he arrives, he finds out that it has only been his father’s excuse to have him back to take up the family responsibilities that Wit despises. Wit’s father is an alcoholic and his sister is disturbed, his aunt is a compulsive spender and Wit has to support them by working elsewhere.
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 5pm, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Armie & Friends
The Wanch, 3pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Carnival of the Animals
The Lio Brothers & HK Philharmonic Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 3pm, $280, $220, $160, Tel: 2734 9009 (See 7 February for details)
HKAF - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
Tseun Wan Town Hall, Auditorium, 8pm, $500, $420, $300, $200,
Tel: 2734 9009
The incomparable Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass section has long been known for its mighty sound and spectacular power. Its distinctive “Chicago Sound” can be traced back to the early days of the Orchestra. The first music director, Theodore Thomas, favoured music by Bruckner, Wagner and Strauss and succeeding music directors put their stamp on the brass section’s sound; Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti each further cultivated the strong, dynamic sound. With rich brass sonorities, complemented by virtuosic wind and string playing, the music-making of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass section continues to elicit worldwide admiration.
Romantic Russians - The Forgotten Masters
PerformNow
HK City Hall, Recital Hall, 8pm, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
The Fourth Asian Youth Music Competition Prize Winners Concert & Award Ceremony
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 2:15pm, $60, Tel: 2734 9009
The Underdogs
The Wanch, 7:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Tom Lee Music Carnival
HK Cultural Centre, Piazza C, 2pm, Free, Tel: 2734 2009
Theatre
HKAF - The Peony Pavilion
National Ballet of China
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 3pm, 7:30pm, $680, $580, $480, $380, $280, $180,
Tel: 2734 9009 (See 7 February for details)
Meteor Shower
ChaosIsm
HK Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre, 3pm, 8pm, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009 (See 6 February for details)
Pygmalion
Theatre Royal Bath Productions & The Old Vic
HKAPA, Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, 8pm, $680, $540, $420, $300, $200,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See 5 February for details)
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre,
11am, 2pm, 5pm,
Tel: 31 288 288
(see 31 January for details) |
Friday 30 |
Wednesday 4 |
Monday 9 |
Music
Bravo! China
HK Philharmonic Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $$280, $220, $160, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
The Hong Kong Philharmonic celebrates Chinese New Year with suona virtuoso Guo Yazhi and famous tenor Wei Song, under the baton of En Shao. The festive programme includes well-known traditional tunes, picturesque contemporary interpretations of ancient poems and 20th century Chinese classics.
Pro Arte New Year Concert:
The Auers Mozart
Pro Arte Orchestra Society of Hong Kong
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 8pm, $250, $180, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
Retrobates
The Wanch, 10pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Sha Tin Flute Orchestra Annual Concert
HK Symphony Society
HK City Hall, Theatre, 8pm, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
Theatre
Cantonese Opera
Ming Fai Cantonese Opera Association
Ko Shan Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $300, $240, $160, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009 |
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Ang Li Plays Chopin
City Chamber Orchestra of HK
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 8pm, $220, $160, $120, Tel: 2734 9009 Twenty-three-year-old pianist Ang Li performs a programme of Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten; Chopin: Piano Concerto No2 in F minor, Op21; Haydn: Symphony No 73 in D major, "La Chasse".
Next Step
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Theatre
Aaja Nach Lee - 2009
Indian Arts Circle
HK City Hall, Theatre, 7:30pm, $200, Tel: 2734 9009
Starlight Avenue
Flying Child Productions Ltd
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $490, $390, $290, $250, $190, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 4:30pm,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See 31 January for details) |
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm,
$480, $200, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Hong Kong Hua Xia Zhi Sheng Performing Arts Association
HK City Hall, Theatre, 8pm, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Romance - Ray Wong Erhu Concert
HK Erhu Arts Centre
HK Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre, 8pm, $200,
Tel: 2734 9009
Theatre
HKAF - The Peony Pavilion
National Ballet of China
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $580, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 7 February for details) |
Saturday 31 |
Thursday 5 |
Tuesday 10 |
Film
A Challenge of Love
Director: Wong Tin-lam
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 4:30pm, $30, Tel; 2734 9009
A Challenge of Love features the lovely Chung Ching in a variation of her breakthrough role as a farmer’s daughter in the megahit Songs of the Peach Blossom River (1956). This time she is a country girl who goes to school in the city. The film is in fact two movies, the first a musical in which Chung returns to her village, singing and dancing her way through reforming her family business with modern management methods. The second half is a situation comedy, as Chung finds herself in the city, trapped in a stranger’s apartment and trying desperately to hide from his jealous girlfriend.
Dwaj Ludzie Z Szafa (Two Man and a Wardrobe) / Nóz W Wodzie (Knife in the Water)
Director: Roman Polanski
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 9pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Double Bill: Noz W Wodzie (Knife in the Water): Polanski’s debut feature already shows his signature style: simple characters with a piercing depiction of the dark psyche of human nature shrouded in a claustrophobic cloud of suspense. Andrzej and new wife Krystyna are driving along a highway heading for boat ride, and almost run over a hitchhiking student. Andrzej invites him to the boat, discreetly trying to show off his wealth and his beautiful wife. The young man goes, attracted by Krystyna’s beauty and sexuality. Dwaj Lidzie z Szafa (Two Men and a Wardrobe): Two men lift a wardrobe from the sea and head into the nearby town to sell it. But they meet with rejections and even get beaten up.
Hours Passed The Wedding
Director: Tu Guangqi, Wu Tieyi
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 2:30pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
“Getting married is more tiring than fighting a war!” Hours Passed the Wedding is a hilarious portrait of the absurd extremes to which Chinese wedding rituals are taken, made over 40 years before Ang Lee proclaims in The Wedding Banquet (1993) that “you’re witnessing five thousand years of sexual repression”. The film also features a wonderful comic performance by the sultry Bai Guang, the sex goddess of Chinese cinema, years before her time.
Kanal (Canal)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 2pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
A surviving group of Polish resistance fighters are trying to escape from the Nazis by the underground waterways during the last hours of Warsaw Uprising in 1944, but they are lost in the filth and darkness.
Matka Joanna Od Aniolów
(Mother Joan of the Angels)
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 6:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Taken from a true story about an exorcism in a French monastery in the seventeenth century, director Kawalerowicz transferred the setting to Poland. Jesuit Father Jozef Suryn is sent to cast out demons in Mother Joan of the Angels monastery. But it turns out that it is the head nun, Sister Malgorzata who is most deeply affected, leading the nuns in mass hysteria and rejecting any outside help. Suryn is in love with Malgorzata and has grown desperate with a sense of sin inside. Finally he kills two serfs and asks the demon to move from Malgorzata into him.
Popiól I Diament (Ashes and Diamonds)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 4:15pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Ashes and Diamonds was not only the most important of Wajda’s early works, it was also a high point for post-war Polish cinema. When the Nazis surrendered on 8 May 1945, Poland was at a historical crossroad. A long drawn-out war meant many were unprepared for the newly arrived peace. Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is to assassinate the new Party Secretary who has returned from Soviet Union; on this day, he reflects on love, life, future and his killing assignment.
Macau
Sam Hui
CotaiArena, 8pm, MOP$980, MOP$600, MOP$350, MOP$180,
Tel: 6333 6660
Considered the "Godfather of Cantopop", Sam Hui’s music combines Western and Eastern elements in an inspirational but easy to understand way. With simple lyrics and a light-hearted nature expressing the struggles of the ordinary working man, Sam’s music has always appealed to local audiences.
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 5pm, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660
Zaia is the dream of a young girl who journeys into space on a strange, yet familiar voyage of self-discovery. As she travels, she encounters the beauty of humanity and eventually brings it back with her to share with the inhabitants of earth.
Music
Bravo! China
HK Philharmonic Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $$280, $220, $160, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See 30 January for details)
HKCC Lunchtime Pipe Organ Concert
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 2:30pm, Free
Hong Kong Youth Wind Philharmonia Annual Concert
Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 8pm, $120, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Programme includes - JS Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV537; R Hultgren: Concert Prelude, Bushdance; Li Minxiong: Dragon Rising and Tigers Leaping Concerto for Chinese Drums (transcribed for wind instruments); Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op 36.
Last Orders
The Wanch, 10pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Spring Concert
HK Children's Symphony Orchestra
Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre, Theatre, 8pm, $100, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Yue Yue is a Panacea for Heart
The Hong Kong Yue Yue Tuan
HK City Hall, Theatre, 8pm, $200, $160, $120, Tel: 2734 9009
Theatre
Cantonese Opera
Ming Fai Cantonese Opera Assoc.
Ko Shan Theatre, 7:30pm, $300, $240, $160, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, Tel: 31 288 288
Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep dark wood in this magical musical adaptation of the award-winning book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Mouse can scare hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagines? Let your imagination run wild with songs, laughs and fun for everyone aged 1 to 101! |
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Hat Trick
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Theatre
Pygmalion
Theatre Royal Bath Productions & The Old Vic
HKAPA, Lyric Theatre, 8pm, $680, $540, $420, $300, $200,
Tel: 31 288 288
Most people know the musical adaptation of Pygmalion - My Fair Lady; many sing along to the songs and most love the final scene, a happy ending of love and marriage. An ending, incidentally, that the play’s author, George Bernard Shaw, derided as “damnable”. Shaw deliberately subverted Ovid’s Metamorphoses when he wrote Pygmalion so that the boy doesn’t get the girl. Sir Peter Hall’s “scintillating revival of Shaw’s most famous comedy” (The Guardian) returns to the original text, resulting in a wry comedy about class, language and emotion. Arrogant, pompous and truculent Henry Higgins bets that he can transform guttersnipe Eliza from a Cockney flower-seller into a posh lady. She is eager for elocution lessons and he takes on the task with diabolical joy. He attempts to change Eliza’s entire personality, oblivious to the consequences for her. While not overtly political, Shaw’s play reflects his sympathy for the suffragette movement and has a distinct feminist bent. Rather than marry his transformation, as did Ovid’s Pygmalion, Higgins is left forlorn as Eliza’s metamorphosis gives her unexpected independence and strength of character, allowing her to leave him. Eliza’s scandalous exit line, “Walk! Not bloody likely”, continues to cause laughter; it is a comedy after all. But it is the seriousness of the play that remains powerful and contemporary
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 4:30pm,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See 31 January for details) |
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Bradz
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
HKAF - Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Five Peace Band
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $640, $520, $400, $300, $200, Tel: 2734 9009
John McLaughlin and Chick Corea go back a long way. Now the legendary guitarist and pianist join forces for the first time since they were members of Miles Davis’s unforgettable Bitches Brew-era band some forty years ago. Individually they created the two greatest jazz-rock fusion bands – McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra and Corea’s Return to Forever both rating amongst the most popular instrumental groups of all time. Their musical collaborators over the years are a who’s who of jazz, rock, flamenco and more. Together again after four decades and lining up with top ranking instrumentalists Kenny Garrett (sax), Brian Blade (drums) and Christian McBride (bass) in their brand new Five Peace Band, McLaughlin and Corea promises to be a night of great music.
Theatre
HKAF - The Peony Pavilion
National Ballet of China
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $580, $480, $380, $280, $180,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See 7 February for details) |
Sunday 1 |
Friday 6 |
Wednesday 11 |
Film
A Perfect Match
Director: Chiang Wai-kwong
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 12:30pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
The practice of arranged marriages had inspired many Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 60s and A Perfect Match is one of many comedies that tackle the issue by making us laugh at its absurdities. The film is marked by eventful plot twists and well-drawn characters, best embodied by Leung Sing-po’s role and his story. The veteran actor plays the father of a rich girl forced by the mother into a not-quite perfect match and Leung captures the father’s complex emotions with superb comic interpretations.
Pasazerka (Passenger)
Director: Andrzej Munk
HK Science Museum, Lecture Hall, 2pm, $50,
Tel: 2734 9009
A car accident took the life of Andrzej Munk before he could complete the film. His assistant Witold Lesiewicz compiled the footage by Munk (taken at Auschwitz Concentration Camp) and photos (ship docked at London) so the audience can get a glimpse of this unfinished piece. Since Lesiewicz could not fully comprehend Munk’s thought, he could only tell the story from his objective point.
Rysopis (Identification Marks: None)
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
HK Science Museum, Lecture Hall, 3:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Jerzy Skolimowski’s first film has an autographical element: a disgruntled youth Andrzej (played by the director himself) has to decide within the next few hours whether to join the army for the next two years or continue his studies and face the reality of society. As the film develops, it becomes a dream ride of self-discovery.
Ssaki (Mammals) / Wstret (Repulsion)
Director: Roman Polanski
HK Science Museum, Lecture Hall, 7:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009 Double Bill: Ssaki (Mammals) Two men are riding across the snow plain in a sledge with only one seat. They start off by taking turns to sit; then as both want to sit longer, they pretend to be in pain and break out into fight before long. While they are busy fighting, the sledge is stolen. Now, each man carries the other in turn, and the cycle emerges again when each wants to be carried for a bit longer. Wstret (Repulsion): Carole (Catherine Deneuve), a beautician living with her sister Hélène, has a contradictory attitude towards men. She refuses courtship and complains that her sister makes too much noise while making love. Carole keeps having illusions that someone is going to murder her and they escalate to the stage of nervous breakdown, with hands coming out of a split wall and the strange shadow of a man in the mirror.
The Hired Husband
Director: Chiang Wai-kwong
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 3pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
Comedies featuring fake marriages are a subgenre of Hong Kong cinema, with stories about youngsters taking bogus vows to either make ends meet or counter parents’ outrageous arrangements. The Hired Husband is a fine entry in the genre, thanks to a sharp script, the delicate touches of seasoned director Chiang Wai-kwong and the comic talents of star Woo Fung. The bizarre and even outlandish situations not only elicit laughter but also comment on societal attitudes in manners by turns overt and oblique.
The Missing Cinderella
Director: Ng Wui
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 5:30pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
The Hong Kong remake of the Hollywood classic Roman Holiday (1953) recasts the princess in the original as the daughter of a rich family, who runs away not to Rome but Macau and not for a brief taste of carefree indulgence but freedom from her father’s demand to marry a moron. Perhaps the most inspired touch is in the re-packaging of the reporter and his photographer pal as the Laurel-Hardy-like comedy team of the lanky Cheung Ying and the stocky Leung Singpo, two of Cantonese cinema’s best actors.
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 5pm, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
7th Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival Celebration Concert
Hong Kong Harmonica Assoc.
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 3pm, $150, $120, $90, Tel: 2734 9009
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
Cantopop idols Alan ‘The Principal’ Tam and Hacken Lee are reunited by popular demand.
Armie & Friends
The Wanch, 3pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Hero
HK Tak Ming Philharmonic Society
Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre, Theatre, 7:30pm, $100, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Lito
The Wanch, 7.30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Theatre
Cantonese Opera
Ming Fai Cantonese Opera Association
Ko Shan Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $300, $240, $160, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Starlight Avenue
Flying Child ProDuctions Ltd
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $490, $390, $290, $250, $190, Tel: 2734 9009
Original musical with Cantopop stars Samantha Lam, Eunix Lee and Karsin.
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, Tel: 31 288 288
(see 31 January for details) |
Film
Matnia (Cul-de-Sac)
Director: Roman Polanski
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 7:15pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Richard and Albie escape to a castle on an island after a failed heist, where bourgeois George and his beautiful French wife Teresa live. George has sold his factory and wants to live in hiding against the will of his wife. When the tide is out, the road linking the island to the mainland emerges, and the two criminals have to make their escape when the sea water retreats. The arrival of the two strangers has brought stimulation to the couple’s dull life. Teresa incites them on purpose which leads to a brutal beating by Richard, but the cowardly George does not stand up for it. As the four characters are trapped in the castle, their masks are torn off and the true hideous selves revealed. Polanski reflects on the dignity of life and crime in this confined space.
Såsom i en spegel
(Through A Glass Darkly)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 7:30pm, $40, Tel: 2734 9009
In a bare, shabby room, Karin sees all kinds of visions, amid sounds of people and animals. She is convinced that God is behind the wallpaper and trying to wrench her from the world. Is it God’s calling or her mental delusion? Karin rejects her husband but projects her desire onto her younger brother. Secular taboos no longer apply through the imagined God’s will. She speaks of miracles as if they were real. But who knows whether they are not monsters born of repression and fear? Perhaps the so-called Other is merely one’s own demons reflected in the mirror. Bergman’s images are concise and unspectacular, concentrating only on the inner voices. It is all about language and interpretation, such as Harriet Andersson’s cries and whispers, gentleness and hysteria.
Walkower (Walkover)
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 9:45pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
"Walkover" is a sports term meaning one side walks out or being absent from the game, and the other side wins by default. Jerzy Skolimowski continues to play Andrzej from Identification Marks: None. He is back from the army, meeting with Theresa from university who has become an engineer. He signs up for a boxing match, knowing that he does not have much chance to win. But the opponent does not show up and Andrezj wins without a fight. The other side later demands half of the cash prize, Andrezj refuses and is knocked out in this fight. Skolimowski used a hand-held camera and filmed it smoothly with twenty-nine impressive shots.
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388, Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
9th State
The Wanch, 10pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Chanting Cantonese Melody For Peace In The Spring Rain
Eastern Association
HK City Hall, Theatre, 7:15pm, Free. Tel: 9261 0713
HKAF - Bernard Haitink & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $1680, $1380, $980, $680, $380, Tel: 2734 9009
The official opening performance of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009 features one of the worlds great conductors, Bernard Haitink, with the outstanding Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the promise of two exciting evenings of monumental canon. On the first evening, Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony is followed by Strauss’s autobiographical Ein Heldenleben. On the second evening, the spotlight falls entirely on Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.
Rock Star United 09
Illegal Immigrants, Summer Junkies, Perfect Day To Start A Fire, FBI
The Vine Centre, 2/F Two Chinachem Plaza, 68 Connaught Road, Central, 7pm, Free, Tel: 25730793
Theatre
Cantonese Opera
Cantonese Opera Theatre
Ko Shan Theatre, 7:30pm, $180, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Don't Worry Be Happy
HK Arts Centre, Shouson Theatre, 8pm, $70, Tel: 2734 9009
Meteor Shower
ChaosIsm
HK Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre, 8pm, $120, Tel: 2734 9009
Four children grow up together sharing a love of star gazing. After one commits suicide, they continue their lives separately. They reunite 10 years later and try to remember the deceased in their own way…
Pygmalion
Theatre Royal Bath Productions & The Old Vic
HKAPA, Lyric Theatre, 8pm, $680, $540, $420, $300,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See 5 February for details)
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 4:30pm,
Tel: 31 288 288
(see 31 January for details) |
Music
HKAF - Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Five Piece Band
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $640, $520, $400, $300, $200, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 10 February for details)
Live Music
The Wanch, 9:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Theatre
Caveman (3rd run)
Spring-time Experimental Theatre
Kwai Tsing Theatre, Auditorium, 8:15pm, $180, $150, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
The Visit
Li Po Chun UWC Theatre
Fringe Club, Fringe Theatre,
7:30pm, $100,
Tel: 31 288 288
The Visit’ by Friedrich Durrenmatt, is a tale of betrayal, revenge and morality. Claire Zachanasian left her hometown of Guellen as a teenager after her boyfriend Ill rejected her. Forty years later, she is a millionairess and returns to her now impoverished hometown and offers to help the townspeople…if they will kill Ill! |
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Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Cantonese Opera
Legendary Cantonese Opera Assoc.
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 7:30pm, $250, $200, $160, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
Theatre
Cantonese Opera
Ming Fai Cantonese Opera Assoc.
Ko Shan Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $300, $240, $160, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Starlight Avenue
Flying Child ProDuctions Ltd
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $490, $390, $290, $250, $190, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details) |
Film
Bariera (Barrier)
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 7:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Barrier is Skolimowski’s third and the most acclaimed of his early films. A university graduate leaves a cold campus for a new life with a suitcase, a coin he won from a friend, and the old sword given by his father. Barrier is a film about two generations who have different feelings about the war; the older generation keeps imposing their emotions on the young, like passing on the sword once used in battles. Though the film talks about many social problems, Skolimowski does not make it into a satire but as a pure young people’s film, in which dissatisfaction and romance are just parts of life. In the second half, the protagonist falls for a young female trolley driver and the story takes a shift to the girl. When the man leaves the trolley, it also signals the end of their relationship.
Faraon (Pharaoh)
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
HK Space Museum, Lecture Hall, 2pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Jerzy Kawalerowicz had adapted this epic from the 1895 novel by Polish writer Boleslaw Prus, about the struggle between Pharaoh Ramses XIII and the High Priest. As the Egyptian 20th Kingdom is crumbling and threatened by an expanding Assyria Empire on the Phoenicia and Israeli fronts, Pharaoh Ramses XII can only listen to the High Priest who holds the real power. At Ramses XII’s abdication, the 22-year-old Ramses XIII succeeds and must reassert his power and claim his wealth back from the High Priest before an invasion by the Assyrians.
Struktura Kryszta_u
(The Structure of Crystal)
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 9:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
Associate professor of Warsaw University Marek travels four hours to see his good friend from university Jan whom he has not seen for five years. The 37 year-old Jan has given up his university tenure and works at a remote weather station, living with Anna his primary school teacher wife and grandfather in a farm bungalow. There is no television in the house and no cultural activity, a complete departure from Jan’s life. Marek tells Anna about foreign countries and uses slides to illustrate the good life in the US and the bad things of the Soviet Communism. He has stirred up the emotions of Anna who has spent all her life in a poor village. The two almost fall for each other but she at last decides to let him go. Through the differing attitudes of Marek and Jan on life, romance and science, the film is on how intellectuals can make a difference while bringing out some philosophical issues.
The Hired Husband
Director: Chiang Wai-kwong
HK Film Archive, Cinema, 1:30pm, $30, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Macau
Zaia
Cirque du Soleil
Venetian, Cirque du Soleil Theatre, 5pm, 8pm, MOP$1288, MOP$788, MOP$588, MOP$388,
Tel: 6333 6660 (See 31 January for details)
Music
Alan Tam & Hacken Lee
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $480, $200, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 1 February for details)
Aniki & Michi HK Live 09
HITEC, 6/F Rotunda, 7:30pm, $680, $480, $350, $250, Tel: 31 288 288
"King of Anisong” Ichirou Mizuki and “Queen of Anisong” Mitsuko Horie are coming to Hong Kong to sing famous animation songs such as Mazinger Z, Shin Getter Robo, Combattler V, Voltes V, Kotetsu Jeeg, Future Robo Daltanius, Gowappa 5 Godam, Candy Candy, Hana no Ko Lunlun, Tentomushi no Uta, Arabian Night Sinbad no Boken, Daddy Long Legs, Daitetsujin 17, Masked Rider Stronger, each of them a classic which accompanied our youth. As Ichirou Mizuki celebrated his 40th Anniversary in the music industry in 2008 and Mitsuko Horie will celebrate her 40th Anniversary as well in 2009.
Burning Wheel
The Wanch, 10pm, Free,
Tel: 2861 1621
Carnival of the Animals
The Lio Brothers & HK Philharmonic Orchestra
Sha Tin Town Hall, Auditorium, 8pm, $280, $220, $160, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
In Respighi’s charming suite, the music of baroque composers is revisited in each delicate portrait of a dove, a hen, a nightingale and a cuckoo. Outstanding young pianists Lio Kuok-wai and Lio Kuok-man join forces in Saint-Saëns’s playful and exuberant parade of the animal kingdom in which he pokes fun at a few composers of the 19th Century, including Rossini and Mendelssohn. The looming shadow of fate is cast over the whole Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony from its menacing opening fanfare, but the symphony’s frenetic final pages ultimately manage to escape destiny in a desperate race at breakneck speed. Programme - Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds), Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4.
CFCF 15th Anniversary Charity Concert
Caring For Children Foundation
HK City Hall, Concert Hall, 8:15pm, $2000, $1000, $500, $200, $100
HKAF - Bernard Haitink & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre, Concert Hall, 8pm, $1480, $1280, $980, $680, $380, Tel: 2734 9009
(See 6 February for details)
Theatre
Annual Performance
Rice Union
Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre, Theatre, 7:30pm, $90, Tel: 2734 9009
Cantonese Opera
Cantonese Opera Theatre
Ko Shan Theatre, 7:30pm, $180, $120, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
Don't Worry Be Happy
HK Arts Centre, Shouson Theatre, 8pm, $70, Tel: 2734 9009
HKAF - The Peony Pavilion
National Ballet of China
HK Cultural Centre, Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $580, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 9009
Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) wrote this classic tale about love, death and resurrection during the Ming Dynasty. Much more than a love story, The Peony Pavilion affirms the regenerative power of true emotions. The National Ballet of China has adapted The Peony Pavilion from the most romantic story in Chinese literature. Choreographer Fei Bo rises to the challenge of adopting stylised kun opera movements into Western classical ballet. This visually stunning piece retains the purity and drama of both forms and is enhanced by Michael Simon's starkly effective set design.
Meteor Shower
ChaosIsm
HK Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre, 3pm, 8pm, $120, Tel: 2734 9009 (See 6 February for details)
Pygmalion
Theatre Royal Bath Productions & The Old Vic
HKAPA, Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, 8pm, $680, $540, $420, $300, $200,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See 5 February for details)
The Gruffalo
Tall Stories Theatre Company
HKAPA, Drama Theatre, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, Tel: 31 288 288
(See 31 January for details) |
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