On The Way To The Front
Theatre
Description
Description
“ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT” brings together artists from Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society (Hong Kong) and Théatre de l’ordinaire (France), presenting an innovative Mask Theatre performance, fusing live music, movement, juggling and stories between the East and West, to re-creates the life and times of the Chinese Labour Corps, the 140,000 workers recruited by the French and British Armies to the Western Front of First World War who worked under extreme conditions.
At the embarrassing situation of meeting of cultures, what happened to the Chinese workers, who had never travelled, when they arrived at the countryside of France, with radical cultural differences between them and the locals
Producer：Mok Chiu Yu
Project Managers：Ng Man Kei; Camille Brilloit; Simon Pillan; Nancy Liu
Music Directors：Erwan Frélaut; Chau Suet Yan
Mask Artist：Carolina Muñoz
Technical Managers：Brice Nougues; Kwok Pui Yan
Stage Designer：Brice Nougues
Lighting Designer：Kwok Pui Yan
Devising Actors：Lyly Chartiez; Coline Marescau; Louis Pick; Chan Yu Kwan Yukko; Cheung Kwan Yu; Lee Chi Man; Tsui Ka Lok
Musicians：Erwan Frélaut; Chau Suet Yan
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Theatre Yearbook 2015 – Dance, Drama and Xiqu" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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$80
$280
Indoor
Non-local
