Love à la Zen

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre celebrates its 45th anniversary both with local classics and new works, launching the season with Raymond To’s Love à la Zen.

The play enjoyed a sold-out run at its 1996 premiere and was named one of the Top Ten Popular Productions at the Hong Kong Drama Awards. Two years later, Love à la Zen enjoyed a successful re-run. After 24 years, the HKRep brings this classic to the stage anew, directed by HKRep Assistant Artistic Director Fung Wai Hang, delighting the audience with sagacious humour and wisdoms about love and impermanence.

Love à la Zen features Eddy Au Yeung, Kalok Chan, Luk Ka Ki, Trickle Choi and Eva Mak, along with special guests Alice Lau and Pang Hang Ying, with performances running from 16th to 31st July at the Hong Kong City Hall Theatre. It is an accredited event celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and programme commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Hong Kong City Hall.

Love à la Zen is about Sau (played by Kalok Chan) disappears after years of dating Jing (played by Luk Ka Ki). Tired of the mundane world, he enters a monastery where his friend Master Chi Yuen (played by Eddy Au Yeung) presides. At a church wedding, a bridegroom Ching (played by Trickle Choi) falters in his vows, provoking his bride Mei Na (played by Eva Mak) to call off the ceremony. As Sau brings Ching along to study with Chi Yuen, Jing refuses to accept her lover’s change of heart, takes Mei Na to the temple, even flirts with Chi Yuen! Can these characters find inner peace when a monk is embroiled in the romantic skirmishes of two couples?

Love à la Zen follows two couples as they examine love through Zen philosophy and ponder the meaning of life.

Premiered in 1996 and was revived in 1998, Love à la Zen is written by Raymond To and directed by Assistant Artistic Director Fung Wai Hang. The audience will delight in the play’s sagacious humour and discover some wisdoms about love and impermanence!

16, 19-21, 23, 26-30 July 2022: 7:45pm
23-24, 30-31 July 2022: 2:45pm

Presented in Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles
For ages 6 and above