See literary classics in a fresh new light at this year's Huayi - Chinese Festival Of Arts
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Production still from Awakening, by Edward Lam Dance Theatre (Hong Kong), a modern adaptation of Dream Of The Red Chamber featuring an all-female cast. Starring Denise Ho as Jia Baoyu. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: YVONNE CHAN
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Production still from Awakening, by Edward Lam Dance Theatre (Hong Kong), a modern adaptation of Dream Of The Red Chamber featuring an all-female cast, starring Denise Ho as Jia Baoyu. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: YVONNE CHAN
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Production photo from Thunderstorm, a non-verbal dance-theatre production by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio (Hong Kong) and adapted from Cao Yu's play of the same name. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: KIKI WONG
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Production still from Eighteen Springs, produced by Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong) and adapted from Eileen Chang's novel of the same title. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: CICI LEUNG
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Photo of the cast of 12 Angry Men, presented by Nine Years Theatre (Singapore). This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: TAN NGIAP HENG
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Production photo from Antigone, by Li Liuyi Theatre Studio (China) starring Lu Fang as Antigone and Lin Xiyue as King Creon. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: LI LIUYI THEATRE STUDIO
Production still from Awakening, by Edward Lam Dance Theatre (Hong Kong), a modern adaptation of Dream Of The Red Chamber featuring an all-female cast. Starring Denise Ho as Jia Baoyu. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: YVONNE CHAN
Production still from Awakening, by Edward Lam Dance Theatre (Hong Kong), a modern adaptation of Dream Of The Red Chamber featuring an all-female cast, starring Denise Ho as Jia Baoyu. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: YVONNE CHAN
Production photo from Thunderstorm, a non-verbal dance-theatre production by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio (Hong Kong) and adapted from Cao Yu's play of the same name. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: KIKI WONG
Production still from Eighteen Springs, produced by Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong) and adapted from Eileen Chang's novel of the same title. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: CICI LEUNG
Photo of the cast of 12 Angry Men, presented by Nine Years Theatre (Singapore). This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: TAN NGIAP HENG
Production photo from Antigone, by Li Liuyi Theatre Studio (China) starring Lu Fang as Antigone and Lin Xiyue as King Creon. This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories. -- PHOTO: LI LIUYI THEATRE STUDIO
This year's Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts at the Esplanade bears an unmistakably literary air as well as a penchant for tragic love stories.
Five of its blockbuster theatre and dance works were adapted from iconic literary and romantic classics from both the Eastern and Western canons.
Hong Kong's Edward Lam Dance Theatre is putting a fresh spin on Cao Xueqin's 18th-century classic Dream Of The Red Chamber, featuring an all-female cast, while China's Li Liuyi Theatre Studio presents a stripped-down adaptation of ancient Greek playwright Sophocles' tragic Antigone from the 5th century BC.
Cao Yu's complex romantic drama Thunderstorm (1934) gets a dance and physical theatre reworking by Hong Kong's Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio and Chinese choreographer Xing Liang.
