Hong Kong Arts Festival New Play Selection 2014 香港藝術節新劇本選 2014 Three empathetic encounters with ladies of the night. The gradual metamorphosis of one young man’s life. In Red Chamber, a compassionate looks at dysfunctional sexual relationships driven by a materialist society. A socially inept, social media-obsessed man seeks ‘love’ from a teenage girl who gives her body in exchange for designer gear, a lady of the night and a professional mistress. What revelations in love and life would they bring him? Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2014, Red Chamber in the Concrete Forest by Wang Haoran explores lost souls cast adrift by China’s rapid urbanization. 三段對風塵女子的憐惜，一名少年的逐步蛻變。 紅樓裏已經沒有俊美的寶玉和他的黛玉、晴雯、寶釵；臉書新世代木獨「宅男」的求愛對象，是來自中港五湖四海的援交少女、鳳姐與北姑。她們究竟給了他怎樣的人生啟示和愛的教育？ 2014香港藝術節委約及製作的《森林海中的紅樓》，由編劇王昊然延續《爆‧蛹》對社會邊緣階層的關注，直探現代疏離異化的世界裏年青人找不着愛的故事。
