CAST AS GUARD & ENSEMBLE
Unfolding live onstage through the innovative use of cameras and video projections, this gripping documentary-style performance sifts through the dust of history to unearth and re-examine the cultural and artistic significance of Madam Mao’s Revolutionary Model Plays. Employing eight different languages, young actors from LASALLE College of the Arts ask important existential questions about art, culture and representation. Can any art form be said to fully represent a culture? In the chaos and creativity of the realm of art, what is a “model” and can it ever be reinvented?
Directed by Wang Chong & Théatre du Rêve Expérimental.
Commissioned for Singapore International Festival 2015.