Chinese Theatre Works
8 – 3PM
CHINESE THEATRE WORKS and Theater for the New City -present-
–2 new Opera/Puppet works-in-progress– Conceived and directed by Kuang-Yu Fong and Stephen Kaplin
DAY JOBS: OPERA DREAMS Chinese opera performers recount personal stories of the joy and bitterness of immigrant life in New York City– using Peking opera, costumes, music, dance and storytelling. October 22-23 8:00 pm
MULAN: HOLDING UP HALF THE SKY 2000 years of Chinese history, as filtered through the lives of four outstanding women warriors. An epic narrative told through Chinese opera, hand, rod and shadow puppets. October 24-26 8:00 pm
-All shows are bilingual in Mandarin and English-
-ALSO- Special Family matinees of the award-winning overhead shadow show, TIGER TALES— 4 linked animal fable that impart useful survival lessons for the smallest in today’s modern jungle. October 25-26 3:00 pm
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