About the event
Investment depends on trust. Of all the people you invest in, how many can you trust?
In a whirlwind of characters, images and bodies, German playwright-director Falk Richter throws our personal relationships into relief against the background of our fight to survive in the global capitalist system. In the marketplace of our life choices, in our bid to be “winners” in life, who and what can we trust? The characters in this dance-theatre work fight, give in, desire, deceive, protest and philosophise, holding out faith in this increasingly insecure world.
Playwright: Falk Richter
Director: Acty Tang
Choreographers: Acty Tang and cast
Translator: Acty Tang
Dramaturgy Assistant: Yuen Wang-chun
Set Designer: Ruby Yam Wan-yin
Costume Designer: Cheryl Ching Hoi-man
Lighting Designer: Cheng Pui-man
Sound Designer: Homan So
Production Manager: Sonija Chan Ying-ji
Cast: Chan Ka-yan, Chan Yin-hei, Jiang Ting, Lam Wing-yan, Tong Ngai-ting, Tsang Sin, Yip Shu-yan, Yu Ka-yat, Chin Wing-kar, Leung Cheuk-yu, Sit Sin-yan, Wong Chun-lung
About the organiser
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (www.hkapa.edu)
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), established by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ordinance in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution in the performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies. The study encompasses Chinese Opera, Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions, and interdisciplinary learning.
Since 2008, the Academy has attained the Programme Area Accreditation (PAA) status awarded by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) to self-monitor and accredit its own Undergraduate and Post-secondary programmes in the five programme areas of Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Since 2016, the PAA status has been extended to cover Master’s Degree programmes and below. The programmes operated by the School of Chinese Opera are accredited by HKCAAVQ for recognition under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework.
Besides the main campus in Wanchai, Béthanie, the site of the Academy’s Landmark Heritage Campus in Pokfulam, has housed training facilities for the School of Film and Television since 2006.
In the QS University Rankings announced in 2023, the Academy ranks 1st in Asia and 13th in the world in the Performing Arts category.