About the event
A Beautiful Stranger｜French May 2023 Show Introduction
A single mother, Hafsa swims everyday for two hours to numb her breakup and feel alive again. One evening, at the pool, she meets Yaya, an undocumented teenager. In the midst of fantastic creatures, Hafsa and Yaya weave a relationship that has no name yet, a beautiful stranger who radically transforms Hafsa.
A fifty-minute monologue, A Beautiful Stranger is a modern fairy tale adapted from the journey of Jason and the Argonauts, where love, motherhood and family are larger than expected.
Inspired by twenty interviews conducted around the question of hospitality, A Beautiful Stranger is a play for one actress and five characters to play in and out of theatres.
"A contemporary, deeply humanist fable. A Beautiful Stranger is an engaging literary moment, an intimate time to discover as soon as possible." L'OEIL D'OLIVIER
"The show is a risky and intriguing one." TELERAMA
"Selection of 18 shows not to be missed" Avignon Off 2021
"Nicolas Kerszenbaum explores the mythological stories and the echo they still have in us. A theatre without artifice that tells the timeless power of stories." TOUTELACULTURE.COM
Show Details
- A Beautiful Stranger｜French May 2023
- Date: 20:00, June 2-4, 2023｜15:00, June 3-4, 2023
- Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theater
- Address: 12 Hing Ning Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
Ticket Details
- Tickets will be available at URBTIX from 16 March onwards
- Price: HKD 220
Preferential ticket purchase
- Half-price tickets available for Full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and minders, CSSA recipients and membership cardholders of Alliance Française de Hong Kong (Limited quota, first come, first served)
- Group booking
- Buy 4 to 6 regular-priced tickets to get a 5% discount
- Buy 7 or more full-price tickets and get a 10% discount
- Audiences can enjoy only one of the above discount schemes for each purchase.
Creative Team List
- Artistic Director and playwright: Nicolas Kerszenbaum
- Performers: Marion Bottollier / Eurydice El-Etr
- Light designer: Pierre Daubigny
- Light operator: Kosta Asmanis
- Produced by: La Poudrerie, Théâtre des Habitants; Compagnie franchement, tu
Supported by La Manekine - Scène Intermédiaire des Hauts-de-France, Les Tréteaux de France, la Région Île-de-France, la DRAC Hauts-de-France, la Région Hauts-de-France, la Métropole d'Amiens, la Ville de Sevran, le Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, la DRAC Ile-de-France
The source of the above information: French May official website