Physical theatre, Contemporary, Visual art, Performance art, Theatre, Storytelling - Edinburgh Fringe

The Mariana Trench

Theatre Ronin (Hong Kong)

Click. The story starts with a young photographer. A chance encounter reunites him with a girl he admired at school. He tries to recapture lost years through this reconnection. Click. His Ma-jie (maidservant uniquely typical to past Hong Kong) admires the man downstairs who writes letters for her and others. Click. These parallel disconnected narratives, divided by a trench of loneliness, reveal the underwater emotional currents that can drown mankind. Amid fast-paced modernised Hong Kong, Theatre Ronin’s piece, like the camera, nostalgically shows the impossibility of hanging on to the past. Performed in Cantonese, English surtitles.

Performed by | To Yim-shan, Wong Ka-chun
Live Musician | Tim Chan

Director, Co-writer & Production design | Alex Tam Hung-man
Co-written by | Wong Man-ho

Produced by | Lam Pik-chi Jessie

Lighting Designer | Zoe Cheung
Production Manager | Chong Hiu-ting
Administrator | Sylvia Lai

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