Cantopera x Fairy Tale: The Adventure of Autumn & Winter

Organiser: The Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong

Artistic Director: Yuen Siu-fai
Date: 6(Sun), 12 (Sat), 13 (Sun), 20 (Sun), December, 2020
Time : 2:30-4PM

Location: Yau Ma Tei Theatre
Age Limit: 3 (Person below this age not admitted)

Cast: Ng Sin-hang, Ng Sze-wing, Leung Chui-shan, Kwok Chun-sing, Chan Tan-tung,  Cheung Kit-ha, Yuen Sin-ting

Ticket Price: $40 (Half price tickets available for senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.)

Tickets available at all URBTIX outlets, on Internet, by mobile ticketing app My URBTIX (Android and iPhone/iPad versions) and telephone starting from 21 October 2020

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Online booking (URBTIX): www.urbtix.hk

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After the success of the previous programme “Cantonese Opera - Fairy tales adaptation: “The North Wind and the Sun” & “Three Little pigs”, there will be a new programme for family and kids this year. Written by up-and-coming Cantonese opera artist and playwright Lai Yiu-wai, “The Adventure of Autumn & Winter” is the new attempt to present Cantonese opera in a fun and fairytale-like fashion. With Cantonese opera maestro Mr. Yuen Siu-fai as the artistic director, performers from the Cantonese Young Talent Showcase will bring audiences into the adventurous world of Autumn & Winter. After the performance, there will be interactive sessions for children thus they can interact with the characters dressed in Cantonese opera costume and learn some basic elements of Cantonese Opera. Let’s enjoy the fun of Cantonese opera in Yau Ma Tei Theatre!

Storyline:

Single dad Lee Cho-ng has a son named Autumn, who is kind and lovely. Later he gets married with Madame Wong and gives birth to daughter Winter. The siblings have close relationship but stepmother Wong hates Autumn very much.

One day, Winter gets hurt when playing with her brother. Wong blames Autumn for the incident and asks him to collect woods on the hill. Winter discovers that her brother has not come home for a long while so she goes to the hill for searching. It is later known that there lives a banshee and some black bears in the forest, whose hobby is eating children! The Banshee has found Autumn and is preparing a big stove to cook him...... let’s find out how Autumn and Winter escape from the danger!

Special announcement (06/02/2021):

As the performances were cancelled due to the closure of performance venues, the performance scheuled on 6 December 2020 will be re-scheduled to 2:30 p.m. 27 February 2021 at the Yau Ma Tei Theatre, the performance scheuled on 12 December 2020 will be re-scheduled to 2:30 p.m. 28 February 2021 at the Yau Ma Tei Theatre. The performance scheduled on 13 & 20 December 2020 cannot arrange re-sheduled performance and refund will be arranged.

Patrons who keep the original intact tickets can use them for the rescheduled performance on the assigned dates.

Please refer to the below link for programme rescheduling and refund arrangement ：Programme rescheduling and refund arrangement

Cancellation of Some Sessions

Due to Social gathering ban, the Cantopera x Fairy Tale: The Adventure of Autumn & Winter originally scheduled on 6(Sun), 12 (Sat), and 13 (Sun)  December will be canceled.
The session on 20(Sun) December will still scheduled.

For any changes, we will announce on our website (www.hkbarwoymt.com) and Facebook fan page.