Art
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Shouson Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Reviewed: Mar 28
During its six-year run until 2002 in London's West End, this dark comedy by French playwright Yasmina Reza had a host of celebrities in its cast, including Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Ken Stott.
In this Hong Kong Repertory Theatre production (based on Jin Ziping's translation and directed by Weigo Lee), actors Poon Chan-leung, Chow Chi-fai and Sun Wai-keung take on the challenge - with varying degrees of success.
Despite its title, this 90-minute play has more to do with male friendship and bonding than art. Serge (Poon) spends a huge sum on a painting his friend Marc (Chow) thinks is rubbish. Their disagreement about whether the piece of contemporary art - a white painting with lines in various shades of grey - is worth the price leads to a major fall out. Mutual friend Yvan (Sun), a mouse of a man, steps in to try to salvage their friendship of 15 years, but only gets caught up in their dispute.