Presents
A Triple Theatre Performance
Schedules of Performances:
Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre: $80/*$25
24 June, Sun 11:30am -12:45pm- Che is in the Heart
(venue sponsored by FM Theatre Power)
Fringe Club Studio :
(one ticket for two shows each day $120/
*$50 )28 June, Thurs 7- 9:15pm - Letters to Cara + Che is in the Heart (excerpts)
29 June, Fri 7- 9:15pm - Letters to Cara + Che is in the Heart (excerpts)
30 June, Sat ( 2:30 - 5:50 pm - Behn Cervantes on Lino Brocka + Screening of Lino Brocka's "Orapronobis" / 6 - 7:15pm Che is in the Heart )
01 July, Sun ( 2:30 - 3:45pm - Che is in the Heart / 4 - 7:30pm - Behn Cervantes
on Lino Brocka + Screening of Lino Brocka's "Orapronobis" )ticket inquiries: Met 9752 5242
* tickets for Migrant workers
Celes 9491 1541
Synopsis: This one-act production is adapted from a short story by Luis Katigbak, written in the form of letters.
It comprises 13 letters to Cara from an unnamed writer, her dear friend. As you hear Cara read the letters, in her mind's voice, you will gradually glean clues about the two characters
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*Che’ Is In The Heart by AMTC and APTFS
(A dance/drama/ song improvisational play)
Synopsis: Melinda’s war-torn village pushed her, along with all other women enslaved in the Hacienda of Sta. Rita, to work abroad as domestic helpers.
In HK, she encounters a different war that made her stronger to face the daily struggles in her life. Che Is In the Heart is a dance / drama that uses improvisations and original songs along with poems and poetry in motion that makes audience, laugh, smile, get angry and cry.
Peformed by migrant theatre performers who volunteered for AMTC.
Playwright - Arnel Mardoquio (3-Time Palanca Awardee)
Dramaturg - Mok Chiu Yu
Directors/ Choreographers - Cha Delacruz and Mario Lim
Lino Brocka’s Ora Pronobis
Veteran Philippine director Behn Cervantes talks about the life and times of another highly respected director, Lino Brocka, amid the social upheaval of the 1970s under the dictatorship of president Ferdinand Marcos, to the late-1980s with the restoration of democracy and the rise to power of Corazon Aquino, a time when parts of the countryside were terrorised by civil-military death squads. The talk will be followed by the screening of Lino Brocka's controversial and highly regarded movie, "Orapronobis".
ORAPRONOBIS (1989): Directed by Lino Brocka
Initially banned by the administration of Philippines President Corazon Aquino, the movie was first screened in Cannes before getting a local distribution.
The opening scene where Major Kontra killed a priest, was based on an actual incident in 1985 where cult leader Norberto Manero brutally murdered Italian Catholic priest Father Tulio Favali. The celebrated work, which made it to the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 1989, focuses on a highly controversial subject - a military invasion in a faraway Philippine province after the rise of Corazon Aquino as president in 1986 and the death and destruction it left in its wake.