In To Kill Or Be Killed, two assassins wait to fulfil their assignment in a lopsided flat. There are 90 minutes to go before their target arrives.
What do they do? Or in this case, what do they do to one another? Written by local playwright Poon Wai-sum, this Prospects Theatre production features two outstanding award-winning actors Anthony Wong and Tse Kwan-ho.
And what a fine performance both have put on for this black comedy about desperation and survival.
The 'organisation' has teamed up a veteran hitman, code-named North Vietnam (Wong), with newcomer South Vietnam (Tse) for a job. This is their first assignment together and neither is happy with the arrangement.
North Vietnam is a laid-back kind of killer who takes everything easily and calmly while South Vietnam is totally paranoid and does everything by the book. The tension between the two is almost palpable.
Then strange things start to happen. First South Vietnam finds a young woman (in the form of a rubber blow-up doll) stuffed inside a bag outside the room. Later, someone leaves a bunch of roses on the doorstep and, rather bizarrely, out of nowhere, a man places a breakfast tray in their bathroom and uses the toilet before he leaves.