The Common Cold

By Poon Pik Wan

Warning: Adult Content
Adult Language
Flashing Lights

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Drama

Company:
Hong Kong Rep

Venue:

Date and Time:
October 31-November 9, 7:45pm and 2:45pm on weekends

Ticket Price:
160-260

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Central

Ticketing By: Urbtix

Age Limitation: 12

A seemingly familiar city is ravaged by an epidemic – a cold with an extremely high fatality rate and no permanent cure. Following investigation, experts and the authorities attribute the disease to… LONELINESS.

To fight the epidemic, the government imposes a firm grip on such feelings, and introduces a number of measures: new homes for survivors, with new family members assigned to ensure a non-lonely lifestyle and help everyone integrate into a society again. Suddenly, there is a new profession in town – being a “family”. Forced to live together, people’s lives become transparent. Those who survived the disease will now be spared loneliness. Or will they?

In Cantonese with English surtitles.