Figaro
By Peter Gordon
Category: Theatre/Dance
Genre: Comedy
Company:
Aurora Theatre
Venue:
Fringe Club
Date and Time:
June 3-6, 7:30pm (previously advertised 3pm matinee on Saturday cancelled)
Ticket Price:
200-250
Location:
HK Island
Nearest MTR Station:
Central
Ticketing By: HK Ticketing
Age Limitation: ---
With humour and satirical commentary, de Beaumarchais’s "The Barber of Seville" was an immediate sensation across Europe in the late 1700s. "Figaro" resets the play in modern Hong Kong, where classic French farce meets Asia’s world city.
What can the head of an insolvent European nation do to save the national treasury? The only hope is to marry for money and -- lots of it. He comes, where else?, to Hong Kong to court a certain Rosy Ma, daughter of billionaire businessman. Rosy, an "overseas" student at university, is watched over by old Dr Moody, who wants Rosy and her money for himself. Does love even matter any more? Figaro is everyone’s "fixer" and, boy, does he fix things!