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Award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe plays to grace LCSD's "European Theatres in Resonance" (with photos)
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     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "European Theatres in Resonance" will present two theatre productions honoured with the Scotsman Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. These critically acclaimed plays, scheduled for December this year and February next year, delve into the depths of human emotions through contemporary voices and perspectives.

     Details of the programmes are as follows:

Teater Katapult "The Insider"
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Date and time: December 19 and 20 (Friday and Saturday), 8pm
  December 20 and 21 (Saturday and Sunday), 3pm
Venue:             Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre 
Ticket prices: $320 and $420

     Teater Katapult from Denmark will bring this solo performance to the Hong Kong stage. The story is inspired by a real case, where European states suffer large-scale treasury losses due to an individual tax fraud. By headphones throughout the performance, the audience will be immersed in a 3D binaural soundscape, cinematic audio and multiple characters in their ears, complemented by an innovative stage design and projection effects. This will create the sensation of being transported into the protagonist's mind, witnessing his involvement in devising the monumental fraud, and later his pivotal shift in allegiance to assist police in dismantling the criminal network. The production won The Scotsman Fringe First award at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and garnered acclaim during tours across Europe and in Korea. 

Song of the Goat Theatre "Songs of Lear"
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Date and time: February 6 and 7, 2026 (Friday and Saturday), 8pm
  February 8, 2026 (Sunday), 3pm
Venue: Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Ticket prices: $380 and $480

     As one of the most innovative voices in Poland's avant-garde theatre scene, the Song of the Goat Theatre reimagines Shakespeare's "King Lear" as a soul-stirring oratorio. Featuring 12 original compositions highlighting key tragic moments, the play interweaves fragments of text of Shakespeare with polyphonic singing, actors' expressive movements and ritualistic staging to reveal the emotional and spiritual essence of Lear in a bold contemporary light. This production swept three major awards at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including The Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Archangel and Musical Theatre Matters awards. It subsequently toured across Europe and Asia to widespread acclaim.

     Tickets for the above-mentioned programmes will be available from tomorrow (November 7) onwards at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone bookings, please call 3166 1288. A discount will be offered for those purchasing standard tickets of both programmes. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7325 or visit https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/theatre/. 
 
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Two award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe plays will be featured at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "European Theatres in Resonance" this December and in February next year. Photo shows a scene from "The Insider" by Teater Katapult. (Source of photo: Jens Peter Engedal)
Two award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe plays will be featured at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "European Theatres in Resonance" this December and in February next year. Photo shows a scene from "The Insider" by Teater Katapult. (Source of photo: Jens Peter Engedal)
Two award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe plays will be featured at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "European Theatres in Resonance" this December and in February next year. Photo shows a scene from "Songs of Lear" by Song of the Goat Theatre. (Source of photo: Song of the Goat Theatre)
Two award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe plays will be featured at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "European Theatres in Resonance" this December and in February next year. Photo shows a scene from "Songs of Lear" by Song of the Goat Theatre. (Source of photo: Song of the Goat Theatre)

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