Human Stories in Puppetry series in Hong Kong are a celebration of life
Memory loss, motor neurone disease and the loneliness of the human condition promise a bittersweet, sad-humorous, and simple-perplexing journey into what it means to be alive in Hong Kong this autumn
It’s 1947 and a 24-year-old Austrian Jewish scientist (still reeling from meeting Jean-Paul Sartre a few months before, and with the manuscript written for his own first existential philosophy book as a result) meets a young British woman on her first European adventure , at a card game in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is, apparently, love at first sight.
It’s not recorded who won the game, but two years later the philosopher André Gorz and his “supreme, beautiful, witty” wife Dorine were married, and they lived together for nearly 60 years.
Until in September 2007 they were found, lying side by side in their home in France, dead by lethal injection in a suicide pact, after Dorine had fallen terminally ill and incapable, and Gorz had cared for her.
The year, before, Gorz had published a moving 75-page letter (Letter to D. Story of a Love).
“You will soon be 82,” he wrote. “You have shrunk six centimetres and you weigh just 45 kilos and you are still beautiful, gracious and desirable … It is now 58 years that we have lived together and I love you more than ever.’”
