"A Small Family Business" stage report



Anthony appears on a stage play for the first time in three years. I accessed the Hongkong Arts Festival site instantly. I was able to buy the ticket with the overseas purchase of a site easily. I checked that site, Hongkong Arts Festival is only 3 or 4th in March but There is the stage of Anthony itself till the 6th - the 21st. Although I arranged final day order immediately, I was already too late. Since it is a stage for the first time in Anthony three years truly, selling well is also early. But this theater and the number of seats have a little less than 300. I think that Hongkong Art Center seen last time was larger here. Then, as for the public performance, the addition was decided. but actor of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre is relieved of an added part. It seems that Anthony is already impossible truly. 5th which were only and a suspension-of-the-performance day were added as a Hong Kong Repertory Theatre development fund charity.
After all, I have seen for a total of three days - 5th of the charity of 3rd and 4th of the an addition at Hongkong Arts Festival. I report the situation.


It will become very large if it clicks.
This is a flier for publicities. There was also a poster of the same composition in the ticket counter of a culture center. The new version was put on the flier place. It is an added part from the 24th that Ko Hon-Man is a table (color), and the reverse side is Anthony (monochrome).

The stage of Anthony was performed. He appears on Hong Kong Repertory Theatre by guest performance this time. I think that The theatrical company who has completed ensemble usually has each color. Is that will be right also in Hong Kong?
This stage begins Anthony of starring and Dora Wong of a wife and the role of Poppy and Emotion Cheung which plays Rivetti five brother alone are guest performances. There is no memory which looked at whether Dora Wong was the player of the stage also usually on the movie. Emotion Cheung is those with memory which were seen on the drama of TVB and movie. I regarded him as the TVB training school graduate. That is not right, He is a Houngkong Artist School graduate. Anthony was saying Fredric Mao of this production as the teacher of a Houngkong Artist School time at the interview. So I think that Probably, all the members learned under Mr. Mao.

Outline is - Jack (Anthony performs) inherits wife's father's enterprise and is developing achievements favorably with a wife's elder brother and the younger brother. Even private life, a elder daughter's Tina gets married and a child is also in it, A younger daughter's Samantha is a study student. He has built the fortunate home. His life which any problem does not have apparently shows a crack from an unexpected thing, and rolls and falls toward ruin.

I was surprised at the beginning becouse even not only wife and children but the grandchild was in the role of Anthony. But There is also so big no sense of incongruity, and it was able to go into the tale world. I laughed, although the department white of a thin paddle was not found, since the introductory part was a fairly sexual exchange.

It will become very large if it clicks. An introductory part is the scene of the familiar party which served also as introduction of a family. As me who all cannot catch words, Pains are taken to grasp the relation of characters. I understood human relations somehow, thanks to the role of grandfather, He showed the gag of the promise which is well mistaken in a daughter's husband and a son's name. But As for the first day, I did not find Ma5 brother of Emotion Cheung for all. After finishing, I counted and has been convinced at last. I think that Emotion Cheung, He was desperate performance.
However, I think that human relations and outline become somehow, not becoming in any way is irony and an insinuating remark. That the spectator is laughing suddenly does not understand only one person. It may be useless that this comes to be known, even if it will start throughout life, supposing it carries out or. Incidentally the English title was attached with the cause or electrical scoreboard of a part of Hong Kong Arts Festival this time. The announcements before a stage start were also Contonese, Mandarin, and English. -- I think that I am not almost related. -- If it is looking at the stage since there is an important bulletin board on the top of the center of the stage, it will not go into a field of view. It is not visible, unless it will turn a look up purposely, if you want to see a title. When heard words, they were not understood and the look was turned to the title, the title is performed for the following words and did not stand on the role of excessive as a practical question.
And about this stage, I think that Although the stage setting was the indoor set which made carefully and was full, it does not have conversion. In practice, a scene replaces several times, Since it is the interior of a room altogether, a part is acted by setup of another house by the same set. By my experience, It makes and full equipment is converted for every scene. Stage which there is no conversion on the problem of time etc. and a scene replaces, Abstract equipment was almost the case.
I think that It will make and full equipment will be seen in the image, So It will get confused when a scene replaces. The tone of a door chime is changed and the work is carried out. Since a part is acted by setup of the house which is different in the first floor portion and the second floor portion of a set, it is more unclear still. It can be imagined that there would be no time of equipment conversion in time. -- For one curtain, about 90 minutes and two curtains are about 85 minutes. -- Contrast was attached with lighting, or I made equipment a little more abstract, or wanted the device.
That I was surprised should be using the genuine article of food and drink. As long as it is my memory, in Japan, there is usually no food and drink on the stage. Imitation which is drunk except for the case of being required, on production and which is imitated and eaten is carried out. However, the genuine article of a drink and food is used in Hong Kong -- at this play --. Although soup is boiled on the cooking scene, it smells truly! The water of a sink stand also comes out! Is this common sense in Hong Kong?

It was a stage in the actor who has received training altogether besides Anthony this time. So It performed in the voice which does not let a microphone pass, of course. I think that It was easy to hear whether the sound of studio is good. And only the sound of a speaker was also noisy and that a sound effect breaks, there was nothing. In fact, in Hong Kong, it is often a certain thing.

The families of Anthony were coming to the view together on the first day. His mother young as usual and beautiful, His beloved wife, and The son who hears that he is loving very much. Moreover, the entertainments persons concerned were coming by the day of the charity regular hurriedly on the 3rd. A name cannot be remembered although the player who often sees by the superior official of a criminal drama etc. is sitting on the seat behind me. A name cannot be remembered although the face which many persons had seen to the intermission is. Wow! I'm not felt refreshed. Sunny Chan went up from the end of the performance and the back sleeve to the stage, and had opened the door of the second floor. -- His name was remembered! --
The smiling face which may also take Anthony was shown, by the after stage greeting. The figure in which he was overlooking the seat for audience for the eye with slight thinness dazzlingly was very great, In the second floor landing of equipment. It is printed on my eyes. I hope you to go up to the stage at once in 2 or 3 years.