Two decades after Wong Kar-wai’s celebrated masterpiece In the Mood for Love, this ravishing new stage with a projected digital performance – specially...

In the Mood – A Love Letter to Wong Kar-wai and Hong Kong starring Rainbow Chan, Eugene Choi & Marcus Whale | Vivid LIVE

Location:

Bennelong Point
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:
Sydney Opera House
In the Mood – A Love Letter to Wong Kar-wai and Hong Kong starring Rainbow Chan, Eugene Choi & Marcus Whale
In the Mood – A Love Letter to Wong Kar-wai and Hong Kong starring Rainbow Chan, Eugene Choi & Marcus Whale

Access and Inclusion

  • Hearing Loop - A hearing loop (sometimes called an audio induction loop) is a special type of sound system for use by people with hearing aids. The hearing loop provides a magnetic, wireless signal that is picked up by the hearing aid when it is set to 'T' (Telecoil) setting. Many venues have an induction hearing loop system. Check if your venue has this system.
  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

Event Details

Two decades after Wong Kar-wai’s celebrated masterpiece In the Mood for Love, this ravishing new stage with a projected digital performance – specially commissioned for the Sydney Opera House and first streamed online in 2020 – reimagines the filmmaker’s vision for the Drama Theatre stage at Vivid LIVE. Featuring a theatrical set, ’60s style costumes, and sax-drenched renditions of the film’s romantic soundtrack – alongside new music sung by Chinese-Australian artists Rainbow Chan and Marcus Whale, and Eugene Choi now appearing as the ghostly narrator via projection – it’s a lavish, live-on-stage audio-visual journey that guides the audience through a heartbreaking cycle of longing, intimacy and forbidden love.

Inspired by In the Mood for Love’s impressionistic end title – ‘That era is past, nothing that belonged to it exists anymore.’ – Chan, Choi and Whale explore their interweaving cultural heritage in a performance that echoes a collective nostalgia for their ancestral homeland. Conceived in an era where lockdown and loneliness forced us to reconcile our beloved relationships and self-identities, Wong Kar-wai’s multi award-winning film is refracted onto the live stage; a musical meditation on the restorative power of unadulterated desire.

Taking cues from Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s plush red imagery, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung’s iconic costumes and the steamy script where a brushed stroke can refract a thousand words, the performance features songs from Rainbow Chan’s latest record Stanley (Eastern Margins, 2021), original takes on the film’s classic theme, and even a choreographed Bossa Nova dance that takes us back to a simpler time. Are you in the mood for love?

 

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Access and Inclusion

  • Hearing Loop - A hearing loop (sometimes called an audio induction loop) is a special type of sound system for use by people with hearing aids. The hearing loop provides a magnetic, wireless signal that is picked up by the hearing aid when it is set to 'T' (Telecoil) setting. Many venues have an induction hearing loop system. Check if your venue has this system.
  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.