Inside a restaurant, men and women mingle, testing each other’s wit. There may be happy talk during the meal, but ominous undercurrents linger. When a man believes he has a winning hand, a woman smiles and flips the chessboard. Love stories do not apply here; being coy is a trap; behind a smile is a snare. As glasses clink amidst rounds of toasts, scenarios turn at every whim. Who wins at the end in this game of “taming”?
At nightfall, a narrator holds up his feather fan to tell timeless tales. Perhaps he’s singing naamyam, but history seems misplaced, and old Shek Tong Tsui transforms into a time tunnel. As dawn breaks after this absurd party, who’s the real tamer and who’s the tamed? After The Diary of Song and Moscow Express, Artistic Director Poon Wai Sum and Lee Chun Chow reunite, distilling the secrets of human character in a world steeped in magical realism.
香港大會堂劇院
Hong Kong City Hall Theatre
$400 / $300 / $200
$360 / $260 / $180 [ 平日票價 Weekday Special ]
編劇 潘惠森 導演 李鎮洲
演出 張紫琪
王曉怡
黃慧慈
陳煦莉
陸嘉琪 吳家良 潘泰銘 杜雋饒
陳健豪 歐陽駿 陳偉發
粵語演出 附中英文字幕
Presented in Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles
Marchember is an extra month in the year. I forgot.
During Marchember, I arrive by train at a tropical paradise where rare fish swim, mushrooms inhale and exhale, and houses are built like pyramids… Welcome to K City, where you can find hope, indifference or serenity among busy streets. We hope you won’t forget.
Following the success of Buried Child in 2017, the HKRep invites Travis Preston, former Dean of the CalArts School of Theater and Founding Artistic Director for the CalArts Center for New Performance, to return to direct this devised theatre adaptation of Artistic Director Poon Wai Sum’s fantasy novel about K City, deconstructing the textual mysteries in search of hidden spiritual realms with arts tech elements. Together they create a new stage aesthetic in an all-round sensory experience.
西九文化區自由空間大盒
The Box, Freespace, WestK
$420 / $280
原著及概念 潘惠森 導演 崔維斯．普斯頓（美國） Travis Preston (US)
演出 王曉怡 吳家良 杜雋饒 余翰廷 陳健豪 陳煦莉 陸嘉琪 陳嘉樂 陳 嬌
張嘉瑩
麥靜雯 黃慧慈
潘泰銘
歐陽駿 蔡溥泰
This programme is funded under the Arts Technology Funding Pilot Scheme by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 粵語演出 Presented in Cantonese
Fong Tong Geng, Guangdong’s most prominent advocate, is known for his greed and malice. But at the height of his career heaven deals him a blow and his reputation and wealth are lost overnight. Haunted by the bitter ghost of a childhood friend, Fong fights his way back to the magistrate to right his wrongs and redeem himself as the champion of the common man.
Hong Kong’s original musical The Impossible Trial premiered in 2022 and re-ran the following year to tremendous critical acclaim, winning a total of 10 categories at the 31st Hong Kong Drama Awards, including Best Production, Best Director, Best Original Music (Musical), Best Lyrics, Best Actor, Actress and Supporting Actor (Tragedy/Drama). At the 2023 SHOWLIFE Musical Award in Shanghai, it was named Best Musical (Professional Theatre, Original Musical). At the inaugural Ouyang Yuqian Drama Awards, it won Best Play and Best Actor. It collected five awards at the Beijing Tianqiao Musical Annual Ceremony and six awards at the 2024 China Musical Association Annual Ceremony.
The year 2025 welcomes the return of this popular production. The team’s years of hard work built a work totally imbued with Hong Kong characteristics, an unprecedented milestone for local musical theatre.
國家藝術基金2025年度傳播交流推廣資助項目 彩票公益金資助—中國福利彩票和中國體育彩票 2025 China National Arts Fund Supported Project Supported by Lottery Public Welfare Funds— China Welfare Lottery and China Sports Lottery
2025年6月- 8月
Jun- Aug
上海 - 北京 - 香港 Shanghai - Beijing - Hong Kong
林俊浩 編劇 張飛帆 作曲及音樂總監 高世章
方俊杰 作詞 岑偉宗
編排導演及編舞
主演 劉守正 鄭君熾
舞台美學指導
黃逸君 * 導演
陳書昕
邢 灝
丁彤欣 張 焱 梁仲恆 袁浩楊
* 蒙香港演藝學院允准參與製作
香港演出票務詳情將容後公布，請密切留意香港話劇團及 西九文化區網站 Ticketing details for HK to be announced, please visit the HKRep and WestK websites for details
When a marriage breaks up, a happy family is shattered. An anxious son becomes listless, his psychological troubles compounding still further. Seeing his original family structure disintegrating, he cannot fit into a new mode of being. Troubled that no one in the family understands him, he hides behind lies, sliding even closer to the point of no return…
Le Fils is written by renowned French playwright Florian Zeller, the final installment of his “family trilogy”. The script is filled with strong and sincere emotions delineating the hardship experienced by estranged families; it was nominated for the France’s Crystal Globe Award and made into a 2022 film. The HKRep, after the premiere and two re-runs of Le Père, brings this story of familial bonds to the stage directed by HKRep Assistant Artistic Director Yau Ting Fai, laying bare to the audiences the difficulties of reuniting broken lives and of intimacy plagued by estrangement.
香港大會堂劇院
Hong Kong City Hall Theatre
$400 / $300 / $200
編劇
霍里安．齊勒 (法國) Florian Zeller (France)
粵語校訂 余翰廷
主演
余翰廷
黃慧慈
張紫琪
羅文澤
粵語演出 附中英文字幕 Presented in Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles
This programme will make its Mainland China tour in October 2025
During a “fake” renaissance era, four relatively accomplished “Westerners” become comrades. Though lost in their ways, they drift through life with a smattering of art. They then decide to emulate the ancients in swearing a blood oath: “We ask not the same year, month and day of birth; but wish to die on the same year, month and day.” When one of them dies on the spot, their oath becomes a curse…
The Bucket transfers from our Black Box to the Main Stage this year, continuing the collaboration between playwright Hui Jim and up-and-coming director Kingston Lo. Together they incite laughter and tears with their absurdist humour. This play was nominated for five awards at the 15th Hong Kong Theatre Libre, winning Outstanding Performance, Outstanding Playwright and Outstanding Director. This production has also received six nominations in the recently announced IATC(HK) Critics Awards 2024, including Performance of the Year, Script/Playwright of the Year, Director of the Year, Performer of the Year, and Scenography of the Year. Additionally, it has earned three nominations at the 33rd Hong Kong Drama Awards, for Best Original Script, Best Director (Comedy/Farce) and Best Leading Actor (Comedy/Farce).
The astute dialogue is prescient, and the play ridicules life. In laughter, we question what it means to dream.
During the reign of Qing Emperor Tongzhi, the eunuch An Dehai was an all-powerful aide to the Empress Dowager. Using the excuse of procuring a dragon robe to leave the Forbidden City, he was arraigned by the magistrate Ding Baozhen while travelling in Shandong. As messengers dart from one place to another, An’s fate is on the edge of a precipice… will he survive? There may be a flicker of hope in the royal court, but others want him dead. Everything hangs by a thread…
The Emperor, his Mom, a Eunuch and a Man premiered in 2013 and won six accolades at the 23rd Hong Kong Drama Awards. Subsequent re-runs in 2014 and 2015 as well as touring performances in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing received much critical acclaim. The script depicts real characters in the Qing court reflecting the world at large, highlighting the complexity of human character and relationships. Roy Szeto returns to direct this story of a unique dynastic episode along with distinct sets and staging, retelling a piece of history as penned by Poon Wai Sum.
As a lease ends, one can’t help but feel lonesome returning the keys. Yet this vacant property turns into an “inauspicious abode”: As the owner, old and new renters, estate agent and prospective buyer gather—each with different ambitions—a fatal accident descends upon them. Everything’s amok, fate’s gone topsy-turvy. Will misfortune turn into positive gains? Just wait and see.
Young playwright Hui Jim is adept in dark humour, capturing the complexity of the human condition while extracting laughter and tears among theatregoers. Vacant Possession received positive response in our Text Testing Zone (2024‒25 season). This production has also received four nominations in the 33rd Hong Kong Drama Awards, including Best Original Script, Best Director (Comedy/Farce), Best Supporting Actor and Actress (Comedy/Farce). Additionally, it has earned the nominations of Script/Playwright of the Year at the IATC(HK) Critics Awards 2024.
This season, the play transfers to our Black Box as a fully-fledged production. Director Lau Shau Ching captured the gentleness and power of every plot twist amidst raucous laughter, breathing new life to this inexplicable real estate saga.
In 2020, COVID put a halt on the entire world. Normal life turned around 180 degrees: day had turned into night as we embarked in uncharted territory.
Building 60 of Tokyo’s Sunshine City is closed because of the pandemic, yet an unexpected guest turns up intent to reach the rooftop as the building’s janitor tries to stop her. Why would anyone break into this place that is out-of-bounds? What unspeakable secret lies there?
Love Out of Reach, written by mainland theatre practitioner He Yufan, was a submitted script of Project Kite. The work has been presented and enthusiastically received in public readings in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. From the earth to Pluto, from daughter to father, this is an imaginative script inviting audiences to contemplate how far love travels.
Construction worker Chen San has a daughter who is mortally ill. In order to save her, he must find money. Thus Chen asked his colleague Li Poxiao to create a profile on a crowdfunding page. This online version of his “alternative daughter” becomes an internet sensation, touching the hearts of many… But is that his real daughter? Time passes in an hourglass. In this imaginary bubble, can father and daughter find real slivers of hope?
Young Shanghai playwright Huang Ruishuo’s work is deep and incisive. Fall and Flow was nurtured by Project Kite through multiple rounds of readings and revisions, as we sifted through the sand in search of the valuable contributions by creative writers today.
粵語演出 Presented in Cantonese
本劇含粗俗用語
This programme contains strong language
建議十五歲或以上人士觀看 Recommended for ages 15 and above
香港話劇團黑盒劇 場
HKREP Black Box
$200 [ 不設劃位 Free Seating ] 7-22.11 2025
編劇
黃銳爍 (上海)
導演 張凱婷
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Eddy Au Yeung
Kalok Chan
Angus Chan
Chow
Chi Fai
Ko
Hon Man
Ng Ka Leung Poon
Tai Ming
Trickle Choi
Wong Hiu Yee
Chan Kiu
Luk
Ka Ki
Tunes
Dee To Kiki Cheung
Ting
Yu Hon Ting
Photo: Leung Mo
Karrie Tan
ManMan
Kwok
Mercy Wong
Clinton Zhang
Eva Mak
優先預訂優惠 Advance Booking Discounts
最高可享 7折 BEST PRICE UP TO 30% OFF
劇季優先預訂優惠適用於所有主劇場劇目及黑盒劇場劇目（音樂劇《大狀王》除外）。
Advance booking discounts apply to all Main Stage programmes and Black Box programmes except The Impossible Trial – a musical
劇目 Production
《 你好，冥王星》Love Out of Reach
《 塘西馴悍記》The Tamed and the Tempted
《 K城故事》The Story of K City
《 兒子》Le Fils
《 泥沙俱下》Fall and Flow
《 半桶水》The Bucket
《 凶的空間》Vacant Possession
《 都是龍袍惹的禍》
The Emperor, his Mom, a Eunuch and a Man
劇季優先預訂時段 Advance Booking Period
只適用於Available only at 撲飛POPTICKET www.popticket.hk
27.3-8.4 2025
同一次交易中訂購劇目數量 No. of Productions purchased in one single transaction 5-8 1-2 3-4 折 扣 Discount
優先預訂優惠只適用於正價門票，門票數量有限，售完即止。
75 折 25% discount
85 折 15% discount
正式公開發售日期 Box Office Commencement
只適用於Available only at 城市售票網URBTIX
15.4.2025 15.4.2025
票務詳情容後公布 Ticketing arrangement to be announced 14.8.2025 25.9.2025 2.10.2025 4.12.2025
5.2.2026
「好友營」優先預訂優惠 HKRep Pals Advance Booking Discount
7折 30% discount
75 折 25% discount
8 折 20% discount
Advance booking discounts are valid only for a limited supply of standard tickets on a first-come-first-served basis.
音樂劇《大狀王》的票務安排將容後公布，請密切留意香港話劇團及西九文化區網站。
Ticketing arrangement of The Impossible Trial - a musical to be announced. Please consult our latest updates on the HKRep and WestK websites.
節目查詢 Programme Enquiries 3103 5900
劇季優先預訂時段 Advance Booking Period
27.3 - 8.4.2025
主劇場 Main Stage
《塘西馴悍記》
The Tamed and the Tempted
17.5-1.6 2025
香港大會堂劇院
Hong Kong City Hall Theatre
$400 / $300 / $200
[ ＊$360 / $260 / $180 ]
《K城故事》 The Story of K City
29.7-10.8 2025
西九文化區自由空間大盒
The Box, Freespace, WestK
$420 / $280
[ $280門票不設劇季優先預訂 $280 tickets not available for advance booking ]
《兒子》 Le Fils
27.9-12.10 2025
香港大會堂劇院 Hong Kong City Hall Theatre
$400 / $300 / $200
劇目一覽 Programme Listing
《半桶水》
The Bucket
主劇場 Main Stage 14-23.11 2025
屯門大會堂文娛廳
Tuen Mun Town Hall Cultural Activities Hall $280 NOV 2025
《都是龍袍惹的禍》
The Emperor, his Mom, a Eunuch and a Man MAR-APR 2026
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The HKRep staunchly believes that a fine script must contain deeply thoughtful content with the potential to be realised on stage. To encourage and discover even more creative talents, beginning in the 2023–24 season, we launched Project Kite to welcome original scripts.
Last season, out of nearly 100 submissions, eight were selected to be presented in reader’s theatre sessions open to the public, so as to collect feedback to help refine the work. Out of these, the HKRep selected a few with the potential for further development, to have the chance to be presented to the public again. Two scripts from the 2023–24 Project Kite are now ready to soar in the sky: they’re landing on the stage of our Text Testing Zone!
The 2025–26 Project Kite takes inspiration from the motto “Great sounds are barely audible; great images have no shape”, inviting Chinese-language playwrights from Hong Kong and around the globe to examine the nooks, crannies and rare moments overlooked in our world. This year-long programme begins with an open call for submissions, leading to revision and refinement of the scripts. Playwrights can let their inspiration fly, opening their senses, making stories that may have been barely audible and shapeless before come alive on stage.
計劃共分為三個階段 The Project Kite is divided into three phases:
① 以「大音希聲，大象無形」為喻，加以發揮，公開徵集原創劇本 Open call for Submissions
