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Physical theatre, Contemporary, Visual art, Performance art, 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 | Wong Ka-chun, To Yim-shan, Tim Chan (live musician)

Written and Directed by | Wong Man Ho and Tam Hung Man, Alex
Composed by | Tim Chan
Assistant Director | Chan Pui Lam
Set and Costume design by | Tam Hung Man, Alex
Lighting design by | Zoe Cheung

Produced by | Jessie Lam
Production Manager and Deputy Stage Manager | Chong Hiu-Ting
Administrator | Sylvia Lai

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