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The Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench

Event Information

Date
10-11 Aug
Time
15:10
Event type
Theatre
Company name
Theatre Ronin (Hong Kong)
Age Rating
12+ (guidance)

The Mariana Trench

Click. The story starts with a young photographer. A chance encounter reunites him with a girl he admired at school. He tries to recapture lost years through this reconnection. Click. His Ma-jie (maidservant uniquely typical to past Hong Kong) admires the man downstairs who writes letters for her and others. Click. These parallel disconnected narratives, divided by a trench of loneliness, reveal the underwater emotional currents that can drown mankind. Amid fast-paced modernised Hong Kong, Theatre Ronin’s piece, like the camera, nostalgically shows the impossibility of hanging on to the past. Performed in Cantonese, English surtitles.