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Cantonese Opera Promotion Centre - Cantonese Opera Kwai-chi Sues Pre-performance Demonstration Workshop and Performance cum Post-performance Discussion


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Cantonese Opera Promotion Centre

Renowned Cantonese opera artist Sun Kim-long has been engaged in the education of Cantonese opera for many years and works tirelessly to promote the art form to the academia.  In line with the 'aesthetic development' learning experience under the senior secondary curriculum, he has specifically designed an educational programme featuring the classic, Kwai-chi Sues to the students.  It aims to enhance the students' ability to appreciate Cantonese opera and to stimulate their interest in the art form.  The programme includes pre-performance demonstration workshop and performance cum post-performance discussion.

Programme Contents

Kwai-chi and her younger brother Bo-tung are the children of horse merchant Li Ki.  Their stepmother, Sam-chun, has an affair while their father is away selling horses in Xiling.  When the adulterers try to kill the brother and sister, Kwai-chi flees and is fortunate enough to be taken in by Lau and his wife.  Later on, Kwai-chi meets Chiu Chung and falls in love with him. 

When Kwai-chi's father finally returns, his wife lies to him, saying that both his children drowned accidentally.  Afraid to tell the truth, the maid Chun-fa hangs herself, and the adulterers seize the opportunity to accuse Li of murder.  They bribe the county magistrate, who then sends Li to prison.  With her husband, Chung, fresh from passing the imperial examination and obtaining an appointment as magistrate of Baocheng County, Kwai-chi goes to see her father in prison in hopes that his innocence can be proven. 

Chung advises his wife to disguise herself and go with him to file a complaint to the new inspector general, who turns out to be none other than her brother Bo-tung.  He meets Kwai-chi at the court of law and learns about his father's situation.  Reunited with his family, Bo-tung vows to arrest the sinful adulterers and prove the innocence of his father.  An ingenious trick devised by his sister gives Sam-chun, the stepmother, the illusion that the maid's ghost has come to claim her life, which frightens the adulteress into admitting to her crimes.  The whole family of Li Ki is happily reunited.

Cast

Sun Kim-long

Chiu Chung

Tang Mi-ling

Li Kwai-chi

Chan Hung-chun

Li Ki

Ng Lap-hei

Wu King

Tam Wing-lun, Alan

Li Bo-tung

Man Shuet-kau

Chun-fa / Chiu Lin-chu

Chan Yuk-hing

Yeung Sam-chun

Enquiries

Tel:

5943 1323 / artsareamgt@gmail.com (Programme / ArtsArea Management & Cantonese Opera Promotion Centre)
2591 1722 (Enrolment / LCSD)

Date
25.3.2025 (Tue)
Venue
Auditorium, Ko Shan Theatre New Wing
Time
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Target
S.4 - S.6 students
Ticket price
$20 (Students, Teachers)
* Tickets at $10 are available for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients on a first-come-first-served basis.
Duration
2 hours 30 minutes  (including post-performance discussion)
Capacity per performance
566

Language

Cantonese

Pre-performance Demonstration Workshop

Date 

February - March 2025

Content

Based on Kwai-chi Sues and supplemented with elaboration and demonstration, the workshop covers:
  • introduction of the writer and the script of Kwai-chi Sues
  • the artistic features of singing, reciting and gesturing in Cantonese opera
  • music elements in performance including banghuang, xiaoqu, gong and drum, etc.
  • symbolism in Cantonese opera: the time-space compression concept and artistic performance techniques

Duration 

Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Speaker

Creative team or performers of the arts group

Language

Cantonese

Remarks

  • For an enrolment of 150 tickets or more, a pre-performance demonstration workshop will be conducted in school premises
  • For fewer than 150 participants from a single school, students and teachers are invited to attend workshop held at LCSD venues
  • Participants would receive education materials 
  • Actual date and time to be arranged with participating schools

The programme is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series.  The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organizing an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture.  For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.