Fisher King 3: Awakening
"Fisher King" will be staged the third time this weekend at On and On's Cattle Depot Theatre. I was quite excited by the richness of the intellectual contents and colourful theatrical presentations when I watched Fisher King and Handless Maid last year, the version for the Hong Kong Arts Festival. It hit me shape, for my idiosyncratic interest in symbols-loaded fairy-tales (particularly dark ones) and the theories in narratives and language. Probably that's why the director and actor, Chan Ping Chiu, has asked me to go through the remaking process this time which has been a great lesson for myself.
I admire his perseverance for re-developing a piece for perfection. On the promotion he states:
"...What I hope to achieve, is not a better narration of the same story, but the manoeuvring of a subject matter more genuinely, in order to approach the heart of the metaphors used in the story, and various believes of life."As Longtin, a critic, said to me last week, unfortunately, it may be the artists themselves who may obtain any "awakening" finally from this kind of exercise. Seldom of the local audience care what the progress means, if they bother visit the same program twice, or more...probably not even the critics. Hearing that I wish I had written more indeed.
Note 1: "Fisher King 3" will be staged in Singapore (The Art House), afterwards from 21-24 October.
Note 2: You need a nice map and instruction to go to the Cattle Depot Artist Village.
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