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. 
 

Celebrating International Women’s Day with Agatha Christie, whose bestselling novel ‘And Then There Were None’ depends on the premise that men and women are equal in spirit, mind and……in their propensity to commit murder.

The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1662, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft- and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.

Hong Kong Rep's black box festival is back with internationally claimed productions from all over the world. Book early for a 20% discount - programme details at http://www.hkrep.com/en/season/blackbox-production-en/, including the following English-accessible productions:

27 - 30 Oct: The 9 Fridas by Mobius Strip Theatre (Wales, Taiwan & HK)

10 - 13 Nov: White Room by White Room Research Collective (Japan & HK)

In Jean Cocteau’s play La Voix Humaine (the human voice), a lone actress talks on the phone to a lover she has just broken up with. She keeps getting interrupted by a bad connection.

For about an hour, the unnamed woman goes through a rollercoaster of emotions as she addresses the man who left her, and herself. It is uncommonly, uncomfortably voyeuristic, even for theatre. Ivo van Hove drives the point home by placing his performer, Halina Reijn, in a small boxlike room and behind a big glass window, through which the audience scrutinizes her. It feels as if she is imprisoned in her own apartment, and at times she roams her limited space like a caged animal.

As Eric approaches middle-age, he finds himself failing in both his career and his marriage. He has moved away from chaos and noise of the city to return to his childhood home, an old house at the peak.

In the expansive mountain plain, all is tranquil and clear, the sky seems to be within reach. It is in here that Eric feels in touch with the rhythm of life again, and reconnects with the past, starting an honest and open conversion with oneself.

Restaging the Scopes trial, in which the teaching of creationism came head-to-head against the teaching of scientific fact, each of the two main characters, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond, represents one side of the central conflict: Brady the fundamentalist viewpoint, and Drummond for science and freedom of thought.

The groundbreaking musical "Assassins" by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman investigates the personalities of nine men and women who killed or attempted to kill eight US Presidents. 

These Presidential assassins are never glorified or celebrated, but presented by Sondheim and Weidman as an exploration of how and why each of these outsiders stopped and altered history. 

The show is entertaining yet thought-provoking, and at times hilarious, jolting and heart-wrenching, as the history of these men and women unfurls across (and often without regard to) time.

Because it already belongs to me 
Because it is the true me 
Because it is born unto me 

It is a simple honest feat to discover what one truly is 
The bloodline from which I came, bestowed on me by my parents and forebears 
My family is an extension of the self. Ever since I took to choreography, I was going to leave the molly-coddled environment