
the bet
Based on the short story The Bet by Anton Chekhov, the work set out to ask the question of choices between spiritual and materialistic satisfaction.





As the saying goes: winning at the starting line. In a huge betting game, everyone is on a different checkpoint with different chips. A lawyer has already got himself into serious gamble debts, someone behind a camouflage persistently puts down his bet in public while a novice is so tempted to put his chips on the pass line. What’s enigmatic is that everyone keeps betting in a Sisyphus-like manner. Where is this game? What are the opening hours? What are they betting on? Hard to tell, but the Dealer is telling you: “you’ll place your bet tonight!”
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Production Team
Script: Michelana Lam, Frank Lee
Director: Michelana Lam, Frank Lee
Dramaturgy: Michelana Lam, Frank Lee
Conception and project mentorship: Vee Leong
Sound and video design: Frank Lee
Set and Costume design: Michelana Lam
Actors: Dorothy Chu, Kwok Chun Hin Justin, Ngan Sze Man Tiffany, Dominic Tsoi,
Date: June 1, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, HKAPA
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