Piano Solo Storytelling Spirits
Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
23.10.2020 (Fri) 8:15pm.24.10.2020 (Sat) 8:15pm
Co-organizer:
Zuni Icosahedron & Kwong Hwa Informational and Cultural Centre
5 stories of spirits. 5 episodes of unrequited love. Piano Solo Storytelling Spirits combines elements of piano solo, monologues, poems, light and shadow to re-enact the stories of spirits and love in classical music.
Spirits is adapted from Before the Sunrise (2019) performed in Taiwan by Sylvia Chang - a renowned playwright/ director/ actress, Yen Chun-Chieh - a young pianist who won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Classical Performance, and Chiao Yuan-Pu - a classical music critic. In Hong Kong's theatre space, with a revised stage design by cross-disciplinary multimedia theatre creator Mathias Woo, while Chang as the narrator mesmerizes the audience with her theatrical voice in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Yen's piano performance will be live-streamed from Taiwan, revealing to the audience the desire and fervor for love and spirits embodied by the music.
As the audience listens to Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns and Ravel, a dialogue between music and poetry opens before them. Be ready to experience a "literary and music programme about music and spirits".
Ticketing
$420, $320, $220
- Running time approximately 110 minutes with 15 minutes intermission
- Performed in Madarin with Chinese & English surtitles
- No latecomers will be admitted, until a suitable break in the performance.
- Zuni Icosahedron reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute artists and/ or vary advertised programmes and seating arrangements.