The Learned Ladies of Mid-levels

Molière’s outrageous farce about pedantry and power is brought to life in a context that all Hong Kongers will recognise: the Mid-levels.  Unable to distinguish intellectual snobbery from true learning, the ladies of a Mid-levels household are under the spell of C.Y. Tang, a pompous and affected intellectual fraud.  Against her husband’s wishes, the mother of the house desires her youngest daughter, Henriette, to marry C.Y. Tang.  But Henriette’s heart is set on Sebastian, a man of practical learning.  Will the mother ever see C.Y. Tang for who he truly is?  Will Henriette be allowed to marry her Sebastian?  Will these learned ladies of the Mid-levels ever learn what true learning is?

 

 

 

With a live quartet playing music adapted from Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, The Learned Ladies of Mid-levels is an outrageous comedy with a serious message for contemporary Hong Kong.