Co-presented with Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
26. & 27.3.2024 (Tue & Wed)
Hong Kong Jockey Club Amphitheatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to co-present with the School of Drama of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts again on the “Berliner Theatertreffen in Hong Kong” this year.
Video recordings of three recent productions from the Berliner Theatertreffen will be screened on March 26 and 27, 2024 at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Amphitheatre, with a post-screening discussion on March 27 (Wed) moderated by Janice Poon, Senior Lecturer (Playwriting and Dramaturgy) and Academic Project Officer, School of Drama, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
26.3.2024 (Tue)
2:00 PM – 4:40 PM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theater Basel)
160 mins. In German with Chinese subtitles
With their interpretation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, where a school assembly hall turns into a magic forest and performing teachers become Helena, Puck and Bottom, Antú Romero Nunes and his cast invite us to a sumptuous, hilarious celebration of theatre.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Die Eingeborenen von Maria Blut (Burgtheater Wien)
120 mins. In German with Chinese subtitles
Fear, superstition and defamation shape the incidents occurring in a village community. Lucia Bihler and her team have found an impressive language of imagery that already forebodes the horrors of an impending political transformation.
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27.3.2024 (Wed)
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Kinder der Sonne (Theater Bochum)
110 mins. In German with Chinese subtitles
With precise character portraits and a detailed, realistic set, Mateja Koležnik’s production plunges deep into the life of a scientist whose search for the origins of life renders him blind to his surroundings
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Post-screening discussion moderated by Janice Poon, Senior Lecturer (Playwriting and Dramaturgy) and Academic Project Officer, School of Drama, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Image credit:
Sven Schelker, Aenne Schwarz, Nairi Hadodo, Anne Haug (v.l.n.r.) in Shakespeares „Ein Sommernachtstraum“ am Theater Basel.
Copyright: ZDF/Ingo Hoehn
