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The Memorandum

《備忘錄》

The most ridiculous duty-shirking game in politics of pseudo-offices.

One day, the Director of a certain institution in a certain city receives a memorandum which changes his entire career path. The memorandum is written in Ptydepe, a newly invented high-level language. The senior official is deeply puzzled when faced with the lengthy and unfathomable new language. To comprehend and understand the memorandum, he goes through every part of the organisation and inadvertently finds that in this large institution, classes are obvious, things well-organised and talents abundant. Everyone, however, is busy with pseudo-working and duty-shirking, which is really ridiculous! Every corner of the office is under covered surveillance and it seems that there is a greater purpose behind the Ptydepe…

「這是一場荒謬至極的扮工室政治卸力遊戲。」 某城某機構某局長,在某日收到備忘錄一張,仕途從此不再一樣。備忘錄以上頭新發明的高等語言「的嗒駢文」寫成,面對冗長又高深的新語言,局長大惑不解。為求解讀備忘錄,局長走遍全個機構,卻不經意地發現,偌大機構,階級分明,井然有序,人才濟濟,卻個個忙着扮工、急着卸膊,認真荒謬!辦公室內的每一角落,皆有人暗中監視,似乎的嗒駢文這種語言偽術的背後,尚有更大的目的……

Premiere: 30 Nov 2018
Venue: Black Box Theatre,

Kwai Tsing Theatre

 

Presented by: Chung Ying Theatre Company & HKAPA

Playwright: Václav Havel

Translator (Chinese) Lin Hsueh-chi
Translator (Cantonese) Jarita Wan
Director: Chu Pak Him
Set & Costume Designer: Yuki Lai
Lighting Designer: Sandy Lam
Sound Designer: KingKong Fung

 

 

Photos credit: Chung Ying Theatre Company

Photograph: Ar Liu, Ka Lam

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