Theatre, Festival

Love Letters 情信

Organised by: Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
Performed by: The Nonsensemakers/Nelson Chia and Mia Chee (Hong Kong, Singapore) / An Esplanade Commission and Production
  • Date:
    22 - 24 Feb 2019
  • Time:
    The Nonsensemakers (HK)
    Fri: 8:00pm & Sat: 3:00pm
    Performed in Cantonese with English and Chinese surtitles.

    Nelson Chia and Mia Chee (SG)
    Sat: 8:00pm & Sun: 3:00pm:
    Performed in Mandarin with English surtitles.

  • Duration:
    1.5h
  • Venue:
    Esplanade Recital Studio
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  • Language:
    Performed in Mandarin and Cantonese with English and Mandarin surtitles.
  • Admission:
  • Advisory:
    Admission for ages 13 and above.

Synopsis:

"...this is just me, me the way I write, the way I want to be to you...and you can tear me up and throw me out, or keep me, and read me today, tomorrow, any time you want until you die."

Could the love of your life be just a letter away? Can writing a lifetime's worth of letters make you fall in love with someone whom you always thought of as just a friend?

At age seven, Andrew penned his first letter to Melissa, telling her she looked like a lost princess. She wrote back to tell him to stop writing to her, and he was entranced. For the next 50 years, through hurt and disappointments, triumphs and failures, wars and marriages (to other people), they poured their hearts out to each other in their written exchanges, becoming each other's closest confidantes.

Presented in Singapore for the first time in Mandarin and Cantonese, experience romance the old-fashioned way as Love Letters explores the love and loss shared between a pair of childhood friends. Each heartrending performance features a different pair of actors—Hong Kong theatre practitioners Rensen Chan and Jo Ngai (who last moved audiences at Huayi 2015 with Travel with Mum), as well as Nelson Chia and Mia Chee of Singapore's Nine Years Theatre.

Written in 1988 by American playwright A. R. Gurney, Love Letters was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and has since been restaged countless times and adapted into Mandarin, Urdu and Russian.

There will be a post-show talk after each performance.

"......这封信就是我。我写的每个字,都是想在你面前出现的我。你可以把我撕掉丢一旁,也可以把我收起来,今天读一遍、明天读一遍、你这一生的每一天都能读着它......"

那个你毕生追求的挚爱是否只隔着一封信的距离?写了一辈子的信,是否也把友情写成爱情?

七岁那年,Andrew写下第一封信给Melissa,说她像个迷失的公主,Melissa气得回信要Andrew别再写信给她了。自此两人开始整整五十年的通信生涯。那一封封的情书,承载了他们半个世纪各自经历的伤心、失落、高峰、低潮、战争和婚姻......,他们把最真实的情感写进信里,成为彼此一生的知己。

首次在新加坡以华语和粤语呈现,《情信》带你回到那个手写浪漫的纯真年代,经历一对青梅竹马一生的爱与失落。四场扣人心弦的表演将分别由两对剧场鹣鲽倾力呈现:知名香港剧场演员陈文刚、魏绮珊(曾于2015年华艺节凭《和妈妈中国漫游》感动无数本地观众)以及新加坡九年剧场的谢燊杰、徐山淇。

《情信》原著为美国剧作家艾.格尼写于1988年的《Love Letters》。该著作曾荣获普利策戏剧奖,多年来在全世界以各种语言搬上舞台无数次,感动千万人。

演出结束后将有演后交流会。

Love Letters 情信


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