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SCMP Reporter

Exhibitions
Zest to Dunhuang
Exhibition featuring local artist Jao Tsung-i's  paintings and calligraphy. Opening reception today, 3.30pm. Mon-Sat, 9.30am-6pm, Sun, 1pm-6pm, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of HK, 94 Bonham Rd, Pokfulam.  Inquiries: 2241 5500. 
Ends Feb 6, 2011  
Freehand Brushwork of Tiger painting Chinese artist Liu Guangda's paintings of tigers going about their daily lives. Opening reception today, 5pm. Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm, Sun, 1pm-6pm, Wan Fung Art Gallery, G/F, Cityplaza III, Taikoo Shing, Quarry Bay. Inquiries: 2736 9623. Ends Nov 27   
Conversation
Korean artist Kim Jieh's mixed oil and ink paintings exploring kissing. Opening reception today, 6.30pm. Mon-Sat, 10.30am-7.30pm, Shin Hwa Gallery, G/F, Aberdeen St, Central. Inquiries: 2803 7960. Ends Dec 1     
Mixed Message
Works by New Zealand photographer David Boyce and local painter Ling Lai that were inspired by Hong Kong's architecture, cityscape and Chinese calligraphy.  Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm, YY9 Gallery, 83-85 Sing Woo Rd, Happy Valley. Inquiries: 2574 3370.  Ends Nov 20   
City-O-Rama
Ten video installations dotted across various Soho outlets by curators Laurent Gutierriez and Valerie Portefaix; runs in parallel with the Runscape exhibition.  Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Soho, Central, Inquiries: 2810 0065. Ends Nov 20   
Red Paper
Sketches and sculptures by Italian artist Franco Anzelmo.  Daily, 11am-7pm, Red Elation Gallery, G/F, 5-6 Lung On Street, Wan Chai. Inquiries: 2893 7837. Ends Nov 21    
Merrill Wagner
The American artist's series of painted geometric landscapes on industrial steel.  Mon-Sun, 10am-7pm, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 57-59 Hollywood Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2581 9678. Ends Nov 27   
Picasso
Paintings and drawings by the late master artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm, Edouard Malingue Gallery, 1/F, 8 Queen's Rd Central. Inquiries: 2810 0317.  Ends Dec 4    
The Eye of Perception
Korean-American Debbie Han's photographic, sculptural and installation works. Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm, The Cat Street Gallery, 222 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan. Inquiries:  2291 0006. Ends Dec 7   
Cataract Local artist Nadim Abbas's installation works explore his fascination with the characteristic properties of water and the mechanics of vision. Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm, Experimenta,  89-95 Hollywood Road Lower G/F, Central; Gallery Exit, 1 Shin Hing Street, Central. Inquiries: Ends Dec 11  
Performing Arts 
Rhinoceros
The HK Academy for Performing Arts presents French playwright  Eugene Ionesco's drama about a man who discovers that all the people around him are turning into rhinos. In Cantonese with English and Chinese surtitles.  Nov 18-20, 7.30pm, also Nov 20, 2.30pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$65, HK$100 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2584 8500 or www.hkapa.edu    
Love You Forever
HK Repertory Theatre performs Raymond To Kwok-wai's play about the development of, and various family members' reactions to, the romance between an elderly patriarch and his maid. In Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles. Nov 18-19, 7.45pm, also Nov 20, 2.45pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$240 Urbtix.  Inquiries: 3103 5900
Twelfth Night or What You Will
Theatron presents Shakespeare's comedy about a pair of twins being mistaken for one another. Michael Harley directs. Nov 18-20, 8pm, Nov 20-21, 3pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$220 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9402 1709 
Animal Farm 
Theatre Noir's adaptation of George Orwell's story about barnyard betrayal. In English, Nov 18-19, 8pm; In Cantonese, Nov 20-21, 3pm, 8pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$140-HK$320 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2904 7118 
Playwright Scheme V
Prospects Theatre presents a range of plays by different playwrights and actors including Happy Fly-day and The Connection. In Cantonese.  Until Dec 3, 8pm, Nov 20-21, 27-28, 3pm, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre, 11 Clear Water Bay Rd, Kowloon, HK$60 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2606 7222   
Stage Sisters
Zuni Icosahedron presents a play about female identity, sexuality, arts and politics. In Mandarin with English and Chinese surtitles. Nov 18-20, 8.15pm, also Nov 20, 3pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$250-HK$450 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2566 9696
The Golden Cangue
GuoGuang Opera Company of Taiwan's adaptation of Eileen Chang's drama about a woman wed to a bedridden man who falls for her brother-in-law. In Putonghua; Lyrics and dialogue with Chinese and English surtitles. Starring Peking Opera diva Wei Hai-min. Nov 19-20, 7.30pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$120-HK$280 Urbtix.  Inquiries: 2370 1044
The Next Generations
Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio & Drama Box (Singapore) presents a drama about the emotional  difficulties faced by three women from two different generations after one of their male relations  dies of Aids. In Putonghua with Chinese and English surtitles. Nov 19-20, 8pm, Nov 21, 3pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$120, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2370 1044
The Peony Pavilion
Bando Tamasaburo and Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre of Jiangsu Province present a Kunqu opera about a woman named Du Liniang's quest for love. In artificial stage language with Chinese, English and Japanese surtitles. Nov 19-20, 8pm, Nov 21, 3pm, Kwai Tsing Theatre, 12 Hing Ning Rd, Kwai Chung, HK$120-HK$460 Urbtix (sold out).  Inquiries: 2370 1044
The 13th Hour
Wan Chai Baptist Church presents a drama featuring evangelistic messages and songs.  In Cantonese. Nov 19, 8pm, HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, HK$50 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 6123 2439  
17th-Century Italian Sonatas for Violin and Continuo
The HK Academy for Performing Arts presents Aaron Carpene and violinist Laura Bruggen in concert. Nov 19, 8pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$150 HK Ticketing. Inquiries:  2584 8517 or www.hkapa.edu 
Ton Koopman's Haydn & Mozart
The Dutch conductor directs a quartet playing Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor and Haydn's Symphony No 98 in B flat and Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello. Nov 19-20, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$160-HK$420 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030 
November Dances
Academy Dance Ensemble of the HK Academy for Performing Arts perform a mix of work featuring ballet, Chinese and contemporary dance. Nov 19-20, 8pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$75, HK$110 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2584 8500 or www.hkapa.edu  
Betrayal
The HK Academy for Performing Arts presents Harold Pinter's drama about lies, self-deception and betrayal. In Cantonese. Nov 19-20, 8pm, also Nov 20, 3pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, HK$80, HK$65 (members) HK Ticketing.  Inquiries: 2521 7251
Gao Shan & Liu Hai
The percussionist and the suona player play songs including  Nostalgia in the Pear Garden and Meanderings of the Heart. Nov 20, 4.30pm, HKCO Rehearsal Hall, 7/F Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3185 1600 
Into Pearl River Delta
Ensemble Modern (Germany) presents a collection of new works with surround sound effects and video projections created by five composers, including German Heiner Goebbels and Korean Unsuk Chin,  that were inspired by their encounters in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Nov 20, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place,  Central, HK$120-HK$320 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2370 1044 
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
The orchestra plays works of Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky; featuring piano solo by Denis Matsuev. Nov 20, 8pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$160-HK$580; The orchestra plays works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky; featuring piano solo by  Matsuev. Nov 21, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$200-HK$750; The orchestra plays works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Nov 22, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$200-HK$750 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321  
I am happy
Theatre Horizon presents Cathy Lam's drama about a woman's bittersweet life. In Cantonese. Nov 20-21, 27-28, 8pm, Theatre Horizon Studio, 3/F, 71-73 Bedford Rd, Tai Kok Tsui, HK$100. Inquiries: 9210 3474    
Concert by Wang Kwong  Chinese Orchestra
Erhu player Wang Yong-de, Zhang Chong-xue and the orchestra play works including Genghis Khan and Scenes and Sounds of Jiangnan. Xia Fei-yun  conducts. Nov 21, 8pm, Yuen Long Theatre, 9 Yuen Long Tai Yuk Rd, Yuen Long, HK$90-HK$150, Urbtix.  Inquiries: 2268 7321 
MusiCall in Concert 2010
Sacred Music Service presents a night of music featuring J.S. Bach's Magnificat and works from composers such as Eric Whitacre and Lin Marsh.  Nov 22, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120, HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3541 7301
Insane in the Brain
A street dance version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest about the occupants of a psychiatric hospital who use breakdance to express  their rebellion against the iron-fisted rule of their ward by ballet fan Nurse Ratched. Nov 23-28, 8pm, also Nov 28, 3pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$195-HK$695 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2547 7150
Ma Cong & Friends
The pianist, cellist Anna Kwan and baritone Apollo Wong perform an all-Chopin programme including seven Polish songs and Fantasy in F minor, Op 49. Nov 23, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$100, HK$150 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Rent
HK Youth Arts Foundation presents Lindsey McAlister's adaptation of Jonathan Larson's musical about seven friends living  a Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. Nov 25-27, 7.30pm, also Nov 27, 2.30pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, HK$250 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2877 2625 
Katterwall Teachers' Recital
Katterwall Vocal Academy's concerts featuring its teachers including Bethan Greaves, Andrew Swift, Roxana Castillo, Naomi Symeou, Colette Lam, Ng Yen-yen  as well as guests. Nov 25-26, 8pm, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2575 3931  
Martin Grubinger Percussion Fantastic
The Austrian multi-percussionist and HK Sinfonietta play two concertos: Prism Rhapsody by Keiko Abe and Rolf Wallin's Das war Schon!.  Yip Wing-sie  conducts. Nov 26, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$320 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
Sunrise
Theatre du Pif presents Bonni Chan's adaptation of Cao Yu's play about a woman's moral degradation in the face of a hostile and materialistic society. In Cantonese with English and Chinese surtitles. Nov 26-27, 8pm, Nov 27, 3pm, Nov 28, 5pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$120, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7325 
Zoo Story
The HK Academy for Performing Arts presents a play about an isolated, disheartened man  who meets a middle-class publishing executive on a park bench. Nov 26-27, 8pm, Nov 27, 3pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, HK$80 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2521 7251 
Kamen
Mime Touch Theatre presents a mask mime performance revealing the absurdity of life by Japanese mime artist Kiyoshi Shimizu and flutist Yoshimi Ueno.  Nov 26-27, 8pm, Nov 28, 3pm, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, 30 Pak Tin St, Shek Kip Mei, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2371 2723  
Reader's Theatre - August: Osage County 
HK Repertory Theatre stages American playwright Tracy Letts's  darkly comedic play exploring family issues. In Cantonese. Nov 27, 3pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$50 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3103 5900    
The Tales of Beatrix Potter  and After Dark 
Southern School of Dance presents stories about children's book author Beatrix Potter and what happens when some children find themselves locked in a museum. Nov 27, 3pm, Jockey Club Auditorium, HK Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, HK$190 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2872 6917 
Phantoms of the Orchestra 
PMA Music Foundation presents Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of HK and Magic Circle Mime's performance combining mime and classical music including works such as Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice  and Mussorgsky's Night on the Bald Mountain.  Nov 27, 8pm, Nov 28, 3pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2521 7673  
Romancing Chopin
Pianist Fou Ts'ong  plays works by Chopin including Funeral March in C minor  and Barcarolle in F sharp major.  Nov 29, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150-HK$680 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3426 8327
An Evening of Lieder
Bass-baritone Apollo Wong, tenor Bastien Tai, soprano Jovita Leung, mezzo-soprano Carol Lin and pianist Nina Yip perform works including Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte  and Schumann's Erste Begegnung No 1. Pianist Timmy Tsang also performs. Nov 29, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150, HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2722 1650
Chopin's Chamber Music
Cellist Chang Pei-chieh, violinist Gilbert Sak and pianist Sophia Yang and Ken So play an all-Chopin programme including Piano Trio in G minor and Grand Duo Concertant in E for Cello and Piano. Nov 30, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$100, HK$150 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2921 2840
Poet Dongpo
HK Dance Company presents a dance with choreography based on the principles of tai chi, featuring artists from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Dec 3-5, 7.45pm, also Dec 4-5, 3pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$160-HK$280 Urbtix.  Inquiries: 3103 1806
Li Wei Qin plays Schumann
The cellist  plays Robert Schumann's works including the Rhenish Symphony and Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood); pianist Colleen Lee also plays. Jason Lai conducts. Dec 3, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK280 Urbtix.  Inquiries: 2836 3336 
Naughton X 2 = Mendelssohn
Twin pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton  and the HK Philharmonic Orchestra play Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture,  Mendelssohn's Concerto for two pianos in E  and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5. Oleg Caetani conducts.  Dec 3-4, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$100-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
The Snowman & The Bear 
City Chamber Orchestra of HK presents the story by Raymond Briggs about the adventures of a young boy whose snowman comes to life and the  Christmas Eve journey of a young girl who is whisked away by a polar bear, featuring live music, singing by boy sopranos and girl trebles, animated film and storytelling. Nury Vittachi and Jacqueline Gourlay Grant  narrate. Dec 4, 7.30pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan; Dec 5, 5pm, also 2.30pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$300 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2864 2156
By the Lotus Pond
Pipa player Wong Chi-ching, erhu player Shao Lin, xiao player Zhang Fan and the Wuji Ensemble play songs including Xulai, Wuxin Qu and Ospreys Sporting with Water. Dec 4-5, 7.30pm, also Dec 5, 3pm, Xiang Hai Xuan, Nan Lian Gardens, 60, Fung Tak Rd, Diamond Hill, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2722 1650



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