In view of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) has made the difficult decision to cancel the February and March performances and events of the 48th HKAF. The cancellations will affect all 120+ performances of the 48th HKAF and its related events in February and March, including Young Friends activities, HKartsFestival@TaiKwun programming and all PLUS events, excluding PLUS films. The “No Limits” project will also not be held as scheduled in February and March.
For those wishing to refund their tickets, please follow the instructions below. We kindly request your patience as we process a large volume of ticket refund requests. Thank you for your understanding.
For those interested in donating all or part of the refunded amount to the Festival, the donation option can be found within the Refund Form. Thank you in advance for your support of the Festival, as we work hard to recover from this crisis..
Refund information can be found at https://go.hkaf.org/rf1.
For general enquiries, please email to enquiry@hkaf.org /(852) 2824 2430 (Monday to Friday, 9:30am–1:00pm and 2:00pm–5:30pm).
Journey to the West Rewind / Women Like UsHong Kong Arts FestivalThe 48th Hong Kong Arts Festival ( Jockey Club Local Creative Talents Series )
Two disruptions of classic formats, two bold subversions of the “happily-ever-after”: one groundbreaking double bill.
Music Theatre Journey to the West Rewind
Journey to the West Rewind is an audacious reinvestigation of the Cantonese opera art form and the eponymous literary classic. Having traversed thousands of miles of dangerous terrain, Tang Sanzang and his disciples at last complete their perilous pilgrimage to obtain the sacred Buddhist texts. But at journey’s end, they find the Book of Heaven is blank. By taking us back to the saga’s climactic moment of enlightenment, Journey to the West Rewind asks us how we can carry on when things don’t turn out as we expected and we find ourselves right back at the start.
Chamber Opera Women Like Us
The Cantonese-language chamber opera Women Like Us is a singing tribute to the literary grand dame Xi Xi and the two protagonists of her beloved short stories A Girl Like Me and The Cold. One is a mortuary cosmetologist living in the bleak world of the dead; the other, a social worker trapped in a lifeless marriage to appease her family. Soprano Louise Kwong and mezzo-soprano Samantha Chong take the libretto to soaring heights, spinning a tale of two women finding the courage to not only face the cold shadows of loneliness, but walk towards the radiance of solitude, embracing the unknown.
Approx 2 hrs 10 mins incl one interval
Performed in Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles
