BAMBOO THEATRE

Details

Director: Cheuk Cheung
Producer: Louis Yu
Running Time: 75 mins
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG

Synopsis:

[Part of Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2020]

While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan modern cites, Hong Kong preserves a unique theatrical architecture, a Chinese tradition that has lasted more than a century – Bamboo Theatre. It is a makeshift, open-air and bamboo shed theatre, which is built and fxed by plastic straps, without any heavy-duty materials. During festivities in the villages, they will invite Chinese opera troupes to perform ritualistic opera in the temporary theatre constructed in front of the temple, in order to express their gratitude to the Chinese gods they worship. Spirits and gods were the primary audiences.

This flm follows ritual practices in various villages and remote islands of Hong Kong for two years. It is the portrait of this traditional cultural space, its way of building and smantling, also the collaborative work of troupes’ performers, stage managers and wardrobe, etc. It allows audience to observe multiple corners of the space, and the variety of ways in which
people make use of it.

Festival

2019 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
2019 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

BAMBOO THEATRE will be screening in Filmgarde Cineplexes Bugis+ on 10 October 2020.

Book your tickets here.