Closer
By Patrick Marber
Warning: Contains strong language, adult themes and smoking.
Category: Theatre/Dance
Genre: Theater
Company:
Sweet & Sour Productions
Venue:
HK Rep Black Box
Date and Time:
10-18 March
March 10,11,13,14,16,17,18 at 7:30 PM.
March 11, 17 at 2:30 PM.
Ticket Price:
290HKD; 261HKD (HKRep Members); 250HKD.
Location:
HK Island
Nearest MTR Station:
Sheung Wan
Ticketing By: Art Mate
Age Limitation: 16
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Olivier Award for Best Play
London Critics Circle Award for Best Play
Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy
Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. he pursues her, but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry, a dermatologist, “meets” Dan in an internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can’t seem to get closer.
The play was adapted and made into a film starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts.
Presented by: Sweet and Sour Productions Ltd.
Co-Presented by: Hong Kong Repertory Theatre.
Title Sponsor: Baker Tilly Hong Kong.
Playwright: Patrick Marber.
Director: Candice Moore.
Performers: Rebecca Leung, Bruno Lovric, Kelley Quinn, Rob Archibald.
Deputy Stage Manager: Vanessa Lee.
Set and Lighting: Ian Pratley.
Costume: Jacqueline Gourlay Grant, Vivian Chow.
Make-up: Leena Lempinen.
Choreography: Natalie Shull.
Publicity Design: Antonio Pelayo.
Photography: Manx Dotillos.
The play runs for two hours including intermission.