multi-channel performance
a theatre experience of parallel narratives and intersensory perception
Claustrophobia is a journey through togetherness and solitude, across the realms of installation, soundscape, text and theatre. The performance is a paradox in dialogue: intimacy and claustrophobia. It is not only devised as content, but also developed as experiential form in the performance. Audience sitting collectively together in the theatre, yet isolated by headphones for the individual listening experience. The composition of soundtracks based on text, recorded sounds and a wider world of musicality offers a visual and pictorial soundscape that expands the imagination to the storytelling. It seems to be one's dreams yet another's memories, or indeed the collective reality of hope and amnesia of the city.
In this production, installation meets performance to create multi-layered narratives. Installation here reclaims its rule as a parallel means of storytelling in theatre, inviting spectators into the symbolic subconscious world of the creator and performers. Installation and soundscapes cooperates in polyphonic-like composition, in juxtaposing, confronting and defining each other in the process. Claustrophobia is a multi-channel performance, resulting in an experience that stimulates and expands the audience's intersensory perception.
多頻道演出
平行敘述中體現多感官劇場
一場矛盾的對話：微觀親密與幽閉恐懼之間，自我的世界與的外在境地的角力； 是一個人的夢，卻是另一個人的記憶。
親密與因親密帶來的恐懼，既是人與人的關係，亦是我們每日在這個密集城市時空中的真實體驗。在隙縫中，我們嘗試窺探自己的所在。
《親密 Claustrophobia》為一場既集體又獨自的歷驗，跨越裝置聲域敘事劇場。「親密」和「幽閉」的矛盾，既是內容，亦是形式；劇院內觀眾共坐一起，體現集體性，卻又帶著耳機，聆聽著私密的絮語和情態。獨白與聲景結合為更立體的意象，看似是個人的夢與回憶，卻又可能是集體的現實／當下／經驗／夢想／失憶。
裝置與音像文本發展出平行敍述，台上的裝置，引領觀眾從旁觀的位置進入當中意象，有如進入作者與表演者的意識空間。裝置與耳筒內外聲域卻又在不同的時間點相遇，互相影響，互相介定；成為一個多頻道演出，跳出故事情節的意象。
概念來自岸西電影作品《親密》(2008)
Concept inspired by Claustrophobia (2008), a film by Ivy Ho
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Creative / Production Team 創作／製作團隊
Creative Producer 創作監製
Orlean Lai 黎蘊賢
Co-creator / Sonic writer-director 聯合創作 / 音像寫作-導演
Vee Leong 馮程程
Co-creator / Installation-narration 聯合創作 / 裝置-敘述
Tam Wai-ping 譚偉平
Sonic Writer 音像寫作
Yuen Cheuk-wa 袁卓華
Sound Designer 聲域設計
Jaycee Kwok 郭宇傑
Sound Engineer 音響工程
George Lou 婁進明
Lighting Designer 燈光設計
Alice Kwong 鄺雅麗
Costume Designer 服裝設計
Trista Ma 馬嘉裕
Creative Assistant 創作助理
Sham Chung-tat 岑宗達
Performers 演出
Ong Yong-lock 王榮祿#
Ivy Pang 彭珮嵐
Chan Kong-hung 陳港虹
Emily Ng 伍美宜
Voice Performers 聲音演出
Leung Tin-chak 梁天尺
Lit 袁梓烈
Jonathan Douglas
Lam Yin 林燕
Production Manager 製作經理
Kathy Ching 程美彤
# 承蒙不加鎖舞踊館支持參與
# Supported by Unlock Dancing Plaza in participating the project
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Vee Leong 馮程程
Vee Leong is a writer-director in Hong Kong, dedicated to the research and practice of contemporary form and politics of text-based theatre making. Interplaying the extremes of authenticity and artificiality, her works attempt to speak to the many aesthetic and political challenges nowadays; and the changing speed of perceptions in our highly mediated urban experience.
Thrice nominated for Best Director, Hong Kong Theatre Libre Awards (Fragments of Stones and Gold (2015), Caryl Churchill's Far Away (2010); and Martin Crimp's The City), she won the accolade for the latter in 2014.
編劇及導演雙軌發展，研習、實踐、轉化歐洲新文本的當代劇場探索。作品面向現今社會在美學和政治上的挑戰，混合真實性與人工化的再現形式，創作出風格獨特的文本劇場，跟當代生活中的感官經驗對話。重要作品包括：《誰殺了大象》(2012)、《城市一切如常》(2014)、《石頭與金子》(2015)、《卡桑德拉－表象終結的世界》(2016)；多次榮獲香港小劇場獎最佳導演提名，並於2014年獲獎。Tam Wai-ping 譚偉平
Born in Hong Kong in 1967, completed his postgraduate study at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London, United Kingdom in 1995. He is the chairman and one of the founders of Art Map. He serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tam's early work explores the definition of reality, to search the situational difference between "Fact" and "Reality". In face with the hardships of reality, he has been exploring the relationship between "Individual and Land" that attempts an insight into history and modern life, leading to the investigation of modernity in Asian values. The recent interest looks at the relationships between "Text", "Object" and "Image", it re-evaluates how art can serve as a cognitive experience.
生於香港，1995年畢業於倫敦大學斯萊迪藝術學院之研究院。為藝術地圖之主席及創辦人之一。現任香港中文大學藝術系助理教授。
譚氏早期創作探索何謂真實，尋找事實與現實之間的差異境況；面對現實的困境，嘗試探討「人和土地」的關係，開始對亞洲「現代性」的研究，試從歷史了解當代生活的困境。近年嘗試想像「文本」、「物件」和「影像」之關係，反思藝術如何作為一種認知的體驗。
Yuen Cheuk-wa 袁卓華
In love with design and research of architectural acoustics and sound. Inspired by modern theatre. Dedicated to explore the expressiveness of sound in theatre performances.
Find his CV via Linkedin by searching "Wa Yuen"
醉心建築聲學及聲音之設計和研究, 受現代劇場啟發, 希望發現更多聲音於劇場的表現性。
若需要更詳細履歷，歡迎於 Linkedin 搜尋 "Wa Yuen"
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Due to specific arrangement, NO latecomers will be admitted. Audience are advised to arrive punctually!
Each performance with Cantonese and English versions. Please indicate the language of your selection at the ticket counter Due to specific arrangement, NO latecomers will be admitted. Audience are advised to arrive punctually!
Each performance with Cantonese and English versions. Please indicate the language of your selection at the ticket counter when purchasing the tickets.
Suitable for ages 12 and above. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
Running time of each performance is about 60 minutes without intermission.
Discount Scheme
Half-price tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, full-time students (Limited tickets on a first-come-first-served basis).
Group Booking Discount
10% off for each purchase of 4-9 standard tickets;
15% off for each purchase of 10 or more standard tickets;
Tickets are now available at all URBTIX outlets, on Internet, by mobile ticketing app My URBTIX (Android and iPhone/iPad versions) and telephone.
由於演出的特別安排，遲到者將不予進場，敬請準時入場！
演出同場設粵語及英語版本，購票時請向票務人員表明所選語言，以選擇適合座位。
適合12歲或以上人士觀看，6歲以下怒不招待
演出長約60分鐘，不設中場休息。
購票優惠
設有六十歲或以上高齡人士、殘疾人士及看護人、全日制學生半價優惠 (優惠票先到先得，額滿即止)。
集體購票優惠 - 每次購買正價門票4至9張 – 9折；10或以上 – 85折
門票現於各城市售票網售票處、網上、流動購票應用程式My URBTIX (Android及iPhone/iPad版) 及電話購票熱線發售
Credit Card Telephone Booking 信用卡電話購票
2111 5999
Internet Booking 網上購票
www.urbtix.hk
Ticketing Enquiries 票務查詢
3761 6661
Programme Enquiries 節目查詢
6413 2749 / orleanlaiproject@gmail.com
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Project Curated & Produced by 計劃策劃及製作
orleanlaiproject
"Project ELSE" is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This programme is part of the "Project ELSE".「Project ELSE」獲香港特別行政區政府「藝能發展資助計劃」的資助。
本節目屬於「Project ELSE」計劃一部分。
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
節目內容並不反映香港特別行政區政府的意見
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