謝謝 With thanks to

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香港藝術節委約 Commissioned by

the Hong Kong Arts Festival21 -22.2.2009香港演藝學院戲劇院Drama Theatre Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

為了讓大家對這次演出留下美好的印象，請切記在節目開始前關掉手錶、無綫電話及傳呼機的響鬧裝置。會場內請勿擅自攝影、錄音或錄影，亦不可飲食和吸煙，多謝合作。To make this performance a pleasant experience for the artists and other members of the audience, PLEASE switch off your alarm watches, MOBILE PHONES and pagers. Eating and drinking, unauthorised photography and audio or video recording are forbidden in the auditorium. Thank you for your co-operation.

演出長約1小時30 分鐘，不設中場休息Running time: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with no interval

conceived by Primary Shapes directed by Primary Shapes

Set Designer: Eddie Lam* Video Designer: Lap-yin Ma Lighting Designer: Chi-wing Mak Costume Designer: Sydney Pui-yin Sung Make-up Artist: Evelyn Ho Sound Engineer: Ka-hang Sung String Arranger: Johnny Yim Rhythmic Programmer: Ben Chong Chorus: Roy Chow Voice Artist: Jonathan Douglas** Acoustic Guitarist: Yik-man Leung Electric Guitarist: Siu-chug Yip Additional bass performance (in Finale): Terry Chan

Production Manager: Kan Kwan Associate Sound Designer (sound system): Kam-po, Tse # Associate Sound Designer (show programming): Hoi-fai, Lee # Assistant Sound Engineer: Becky Yam# Sound Crew: Leung Ka Wai# Assistant to Directors: Kin-ping Fung, Kin-man Ho Documentation (Video Director): doO Promotion Consultant & Booklet Graphic Artist: Queenie Yu Poster Design: Henry Law Photography (poster): Polestar Advertising Co. Photography (house program): Lap-yin, Ma

Producer: amusical.org Limited

thanks to the following partners: Sound System: Audio Dynamic Ltd. CueConsole & Matrix3: Meyersound Additional loudspeakers: Live Sound Ltd.

Rehearsal Studio: Mr. Mountain Hui

Coolux Video System: M Square

Mist Curtain: Dino Technology Ltd.

Additional Makeup (musicians): Yvonne Tsang

with special thanks to: Wong Shing San | Dejay | Paul Poon (Audio Dynamic) | John McMahon | Roy Szeto | Henry Law | John Chan | Frank Yeung | Chan Ming Kin | Jung King | Guan Yong | Sunny Lai | Frankie Hung | Peggy Ho

*With the kind permission of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre **With the kind permission of Radio Television Hong Kong #With the kind permission of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

數碼鋼琴由通利琴行提供 The digital piano is provided by Acknowledgment

"Do I begin this.Yes you began this.Of course we did.Yes indeed we did."--- Every Afternoon, Gertrude Stein

Producers’ & Directors’ Notes

Chi-Wai Tang 鄧智偉 Singer | Composer

"He tells lies."

Cheuk-Wa Yuen 袁卓華 Sound Designer | Writer

"He tells truth."

"That's what I have wanted to writefor many years - the state of chaos! To be understood is not the issue."--- Haruki Murakami (interviewed by Los Angeles Times on 25 Feb 2005)

Lap-Yin Ma 馬立賢 Video Artist

"There are things we know to be true, but which we cannotprove to be so." --- Kurt Gödel

Chi-Wing Mak 麥志榮 Lighting Designer

"...begins with the immeasurable, moves through to the measurable, and then must return and end with the immeasurable." --- Louis I. Kahn

Eddie Lam 林菁 Set Designer

"Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain."--- Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, Haruki Murakami

Ka-Hang Sung 宋嘉恆 Sound Engineer

"Chaos breeds life when order breeds habit."--- Henry Brooks Adams

Johnny Yim 嚴勵行 String Arranger & His String Quartet | Ben Chong 莊冬昕 Rhythmic Programmer

"- Can you verify that this painting is authentic?- Surely that's not important? If you think it is then it is.- In other words, you and I think we have seen his work.- Then it is his work." --- Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian

Kan Kwan 關浩明 Production Manager & Stage Manager | Queenie Yu 余皓文 Promotion Consultant

Evelyn Ho 何燕妮 Make-up Artist Sydney Pui-Yin Sung 宋沛言 Costume Designer

"The imagination is always linked with desire. Beauty is naked, unshrouded by imagination." --- Cahiers, Simone Weil

Roy Chow 周永恆 Chorus | Jonathan Douglas 杜格尊 Voice Artist

"Which statement seems more true? (1) I have a brain; (2) I am a brain."--- Douglas Hofstadter

Kevin Yik-Man Leung 梁弋文 Acoustic Guitar | Siu-Chung Yip 葉肇中 Electric Guitar

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."--- Pablo Picasso