Directors:
Meng Jinghui (Beijing)
Pun Tak Shu



Video:
Ernest Fung


Music:
Timmy Lok
Doris Kan


Graphics Design:
Anothermountainman 

 
The Eight Year Of One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Viva
Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
30/8-8/9/1996

Presented by Urban Council
Produced by Zuni Icosahedron 



The Eight Year - Viva
- People rise emperor falls. Another emperor is thorn. And, as history goes down, sooner or later, people rise again...revolution of revolution.

One Hundred Years of Solitude the Nobel Prize-winning novel of 1982 by Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer, is a masterpiece of Magical Realism. The book recounts the vicissitudes of life of a century in Latin America, depicting a history of colonialism, dictatorship and bloodshed in a most interesting and intriguing manner, with forgetfulness and solitude as themes.

One Hundred Years of Solitude has been in Zuni Icosahedron’s repertoire since the group’s inception in 1982, and is Zuni’s most representative series of works, with each of which depicting a distinctive aspect of Zuni’s artistic vision. On the stage, performers travel from left to right and point towards certain directions on their way. With “pointing” and “watching” as the vocabulary and “direction” and “action” as the motifs, episodes of a journey are developed: caravans, explorers, wedding ceremonies, carnivals, strikes, funerals, revolution – when put together, they weave a tapestry of a journey of all mankind.

The “One Hundred Years of Solitude Series” has induced a lot of ground-breaking elements into the fields of arts and theatre in Hong Kong with its unique and experimental artistic vision, its special style and structure, its unconventional theatre language and way of expression on stage. It has brought the art of theatre to a whole new level and has expanded itself into all humanities. 

 

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