HONG KONG SHAX THEATRE GROUP

2012

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HAMLET
Venue: Theatre 303, The University of Hong Kong 香港大學303劇院

Date: April 27, 2012

Special Note: This production was later performed at The Main Building, The University of Hong Kong at the invitation of the School of English, on Main Building Farewell Day.

 

Each era, each society that has something to tell about itself has its own “Hamlet”, but so often the women around him are forgotten and neglected. 

In HKSTG's unique rendition of Hamlet, you are invited to go on an emotional roller-coaster ride with Hamlet's neglected lover, Ophelia. Set in China during the turbulent 1920s, Ophelia like other women in her own era is quite powerless under the hands of three other men in her life - her father, brother and lover. But is that the reason why she drowns herself in the end? 

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每個時代的社會都會近似＜哈姆雷特＞的故事，但很容易被違忘。STG演出了一個獨特的版本，令觀察的情緒仿如坐過山車一樣。故事以1920年代的中國為背景，描述了Ophelia這角色的無力感，還有她與父親、兄長以及愛人的關係，扣人心弦。