In the Show – 13th December 2011
Clockenflap is a two-day festival of art and music that took place last weekend on the West Kowloon Promenade. It was a little cold out there, but despite that, thousands of music lovers turned out to listen to dozens of performers from Hong Kong and overseas.
The movie “Sarah’s Key” is set in two time periods. In the past, during the Second World War, it’s about the collaborationist Vichy government in France doing the Nazis’ dirty work and rounding up the people they had identified as Jews, including the ten-year-old Sarah. That story is intercut with a modern day story about American-born journalist Julia Jarmond, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, who is working on a magazine story about the roundup and deportations of the Jewish families, and dealing with very contemporary domestic issues. Gary Pollard reviews it for us.
After premiering at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2010, Frederic Mao’s “The Liaisons”, which merges Cantonese Opera with contemporary romance, then went on to represent Hong Kong at the Shanghai Expo. It’s also been performed in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.Despite being in Cantonese, it was very well received in mainland China. Now Hong Kong audiences are going to have another chance to see it.“The Liaisons” is back for an eight-show rerun at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 6th to 14th January. Director Fredric Mao talks to us about his production.
In our Arts Diary this week, Fabrik Contemporary Art is presenting the first solo exhibition of 21 sculptural works by Manila-born artist Daniel dela Cruz until January .21st. The show’s called “Ms.Interpretation” and in it Daniel takes a lighthearted look at his favourite subject; women.
And in our studio we have a guest who will, this weekend, be performing in a concert called “The Fusion” with the Chung Brothers. He’s local guitarist Jacky Lau, who began as a classical guitarist, but has now developed a finger-picking style with which he performs many kinds of music., He talks to us about his new CD and the upcoming show, as well as giving us a sample.
