On the Way to the Front
Warning: In English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese
Category: Theatre/Dance
Genre: Drama
Company:
Le French May
Venue:
Ko Shan Theatre (Opera only)
Date and Time:
June 19-21, 8pm
Ticket Price:
140-250
Location:
Kowloon
Nearest MTR Station:
Hung Hom
Ticketing By: Urbtix
Age Limitation: ---
On the Way to the Front brings together artists from Asian People's Theatre Festival Society (Hong Kong) and Théâtre de l'Ordinaire (France), presenting an innovative Mask Theatre performance, fusing live music, movement, juggling and stories between the East and West, to re-create 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?