The Third Year - The Long March

“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.