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The theater is full of possibilities. Within the limited space of the stage, it can span time and space, allowing people to be inspired and explore, think and imagine togther. It happens to each one of us at times to feel separated from ourselves, going through the business of living as if we were at once a character in a play and the actor who impersonates that character. We feel the presence of this other self when some moment of stark reality strikes through the conventions of our everyday lives. There is no one who has not experienced at some time or other the sense of inward withdrawal. All life is indeed a play in which we act out our roles until the final curtain falls. This idea of the theatre goes deep. We recognize its truth in our inmost hearts. We know that it is true as we know that our souls are immortal. I am persuaded that the consciousness of a dual personality-the sense of otherness, of apartness, the sense that we are possessed, that another's voice ever and again speaks through us--is a thing that is very common in human experience and that it is the only thing that separates us from the brutes. Perhaps it was the sense of theatre that made us human, ages ago.

深圳南山希尔顿欢朋酒店剧场餐厅，设计灵感来源于剧场舞台。剧场充满了可能性，在舞台的方寸空间内，它可以跨越时空，让人醒觉与探索，共同思考与想象。在生命的歷程中，我們都經歷過一種抽離自我的狀態，我們扮演的角色一如演員在舞臺上所演繹的角色。每當清晰的真實，意外地穿越我們日常生活的模式時，我們都能體會到另一個自我的存在。幾乎沒有人不曾體會過這種內在自我的外現。事實上，所有的存在都是一出戲，我們在其中扮演應有的角色，直到落幕。這個概念更深層的意義在於，我們承認真實存在於我們內心深處。我們之所以這麼認為，一如我們相信靈魂的不朽。我相信雙重人格的感知——一種自外的、抽離的、讓人著魔的，像是另一個人透過我們的軀體在發言——是人類的共通經驗，也正是這樣的經驗能使我們的生命脫離苦澀平淡。或許正因為這樣劇場感的生命，才在幾萬年前成就我們獨特的人性。