Five Acts of Life - Lao She's Short Stories    

Time: 12-13 March 2010, 8:00pm  13-14 March 2010, 3:00pm
Venue: Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre
Price: Adult - $280, $200, $150  Student - $100, $75

About This Programme
When two giants of modern Chinese theatre meet...Two great Chinese theatre-makers tell five stories of old Peking.

Lao She, a giant of 20th century literature, is regarded a most important Chinese playwright and novelist, whose writing is permeated by a uniquely Chinese flavour and whose vivid portraits of ordinary people reveal a deep sympathy for their plight. His seminal play Teahouse is an undisputed masterpiece and classic of all time.

Lin Zhaohua, arguably China's most influential theatre director today, and an expert on Lao She, brings the writer's most memorable short stories to the stage for the first time. Five stories about ordinary people in Chinese society in the 1930s and 1940s are transformed into a moving drama of human passions, of corruption and redemption.

Don't miss this groundbreaking collaboration of the best minds of Chinese theatre!

Five stories of old Peking
Ménage à Trois is a psychological rollercoaster about two war buddies who decide to share one woman as wife.

Fruit follows the destructive affair between an aspiring amateur actor eager to turn professional and the man who helps him.

Assuming Office boldly reveals the tension and tenuous boundaries between criminals and those in authority.

Liu's Compound chronicles an ill-fated girl's road to suicide under the constant bullying of her husband and in-laws.

The Death Dealing Spear recounts the dwindling fortune of an armed escort after the introduction of firearms.

Special Remarks
Performed in Putonghua with Chinese and English surtitles

Programme
Ménage à Trois
Fruit
Assuming Office
Liu's Compound
The Death Dealing Spear

Cast And Director
Produced by
POLOARTS Entertainment Co. Ltd.
Lin Zhaohua Drama Studio

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