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Kunshan Culture and Art Center to stage memorable performances
( chinadaily.com.cn )
Updated: 2015-07-31
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Multi-media music theatre Amber
Performer: National Theatre of China
Time: 19:30, Sept 17, 2015
Tickets: 380/280/180/100 yuan
The questions that love raises are among some of the most difficult to answer. What is it that makes us love? What triggers desire? Where does this force come from?
Examining her own emotions and exploring her doubts, the playwright Liao Yimei has created a story centring on a heart-transplant that her husband Meng Jinghui turned into a farcical multimedia play called "Amber."
Gao Yuan, a cynical young man with a strong superiority complex, cannot help falling in love with Xiao You at first sight. But Xiao, a museum commentator, has a secret. After the death of her fiancee, Gao receives her lover's heart in a transplant.
Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival, the National Theatre Company of China produces the play which premiered at the Grand Theatre in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on March 3, 2005.
The six sold-out shows in Hong Kong turned out to be an unexpected hit.
With 9,600 tickets sold, it became the second most successful drama in the Hong Kong Arts Festival's 33-year history. Only the Beijing People's Art Theatre's signature work "Tea House" which sold 10,000 tickets was ahead of it.