Performances in Mekong Arts Fest 2009

ตารางการแสดงในงานเทศกาลแม่โขงออกมาแล้ว


ช่วงครึ่งวันเช้าจะเป็นช่วงประชุมสัมนา ช่วงบ่ายเป็นช่วงการอบรม ช่วงเย็นชมการแสดงกลางแจ้ง หรือชื่อเก๋ๆว่า ช่วง Twilight Performances ส่วนช่วงค่ำเป็นช่วงการแสดงหลัก Main Performances ในโรงละครหรือหอประชุมจตุรมุข


ดูตารางการแสดงได้ที่นี่




PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

DAY 1

Opening Ceremony


DAY 2


Twilight Performances, Garden Area,
WISHES OF THE HANDS, Moe Satt (Myanmar)
Performances artists, Moe Satt does an interactive piece that allows audience to throw in thier messages how they feel on issues affecting them.
PRINCE AND PRINCES, Mandaly Marionettes (Myanmar)
A magnificent and sentimental duet about the Prince who comes back from his studies and brings his love to the palace.


MAIN PERFORMANCES
Zhang Yinzhong (China)
Dream, National Puppet Theatre Troupe- Kabong Lao (Laos)
The Performance is a reflection of how human beings are getting punished by the environment for the damage that we have caused. Told through the dreams of Grandpa Chan and Grandma Chan, four scenes: The Shower Head, Elephant, Samurai and Sunami show our careless and irresponsible actions towards the environment and wildlife and the negative consequences of actions.
PURGATORY, Cresent Moon Theatre (Thailand)
After their death, three women meet in the cauldron of Hell. They share their life stories and questions why they are there. They ask the God of the Underworld to judge their guilt and decide if they can go to Heaven, not knowing that the God has another plan for them.





DAY 3

Twilight Performances, Garden
CHAPEI DANG WENG, Cambodian Living Arts (Cambodia)
Chapei is a traditional musical instrument which can be played on its own or as an accompaniment to peotry, narrated stories and riddles, as well as in duets and debates.
LES BALLAYETTE, Phare Ponlue Selpak (Cambodia)
A song and dance peice about how women should have a choice. The English translation of Les Ballayette is the brush, used here as a symbol of how women should clean out the notion that they should always say yes.


MAIN PERFORMANCES (Main Theater, Chaktomuk Conference Hall)
THE MAGICIAN, Manadalay Marionette (Myanmar)
According to poppular belief Zaw-Gyi is a demigod clad in red, full of vigour, and lives in the forest. He always carries a magic stick. He has a friendly face which express his philosophical mind. As he is an Alchemist, he grinds medical plants with his magic stick on a stone slab. When he achieves success, he dances about and does a lot of acrobatics and sits on his magic stick. He is puppet character who is capable of flying through the air and boring through the earth.
FOR A LITTLE LESS NOISE MAE NAM (Mother of Water),
Khandha Arts'n Theater Company (Thailand)
A multidisciplinary contemporary theatre piece for the advocacy of HIV/ AIDS, Mae Nam is a dramatic interpretation with HIV from her beloved husband. The performance consists of different scenes, each highlighting social anbd cultural conditions, contemporary Asian society prejudices as well as its spirituality.
PUTHOU!, Phare Ponlue Selpak (Cambodia)
Puthou! is a celebration of life. It depicts love, jealousy, deception, anger and all youthful emotions. In Khmer, Puthou means, Oh My God! This performance is a co-production by Phare Ponlue Selpak and the Philippine Educational Theater Association and is the first show to be produced by the second generation of students composed of 13 teenagers who spent a whole year together abroad for training in a circus skills. Some of them trained at Vietnam Circus School and the others at Ecole de Cirque de Lomme in France.


DAY 4

Twilight Performances, Garden
BROUGHT YOU A FLOWERS WILL YOU MARY ME
PETA- Metropolitan Teen Theater League (Philippines)
A young man sets out to ask a girl he loves to marry him. A product of the performance laboratory for the young artists of the Philippine Educational Theater Association, entitled Toilet Bowl, this is a solo performans that tackles the issue of adolescent sexuality.
FACES AND FINGERS, Moe Satt (Myanmar)
F n' F is a performance art based on how the combination of hand gesture can combine with different facial expressions to present various meanings. For instance a hand sign of the gun could only present a gun. But when it is coupled with different facial expressions, it begins to mean differently. Moe Satt shows this to the audience by presenting different hand signals with different facial expressions and letting the audience find out the meaning of the signs.


Main Performances, Main Theater, Chaktomuk Conference Hall
THE REBORN OF THE BUTTERFLY
Wandering Moon Performing Group and Endless Journey (Thailand)
The Reborn is based on the Shadow theater performance ncalled the Butterfly Series. It tackles sensitive women issues like indentity crisis, sexual desires and abortion. Wandering moon expresses their views on these issues using their artistic craft through shadow theater.
HOW TO MOVE FORWARD TO THE NORTH - TO THE NORTH EAST
Ho Ho-Do (Japan)
This peice has been performed in 14 cities in Japan and abroad. Ho Ho-Do uses the wind blowing from huge running fun as a motif to show a collection of continuous small dance like moments. Then piece keeps evolving every time it is performed.
STEREO MAN, Youth Theater (Vietnam)
Stereoman is an exploration of the modern dance genre, created with Philippine choreographer Agnes Locsin. Through dance and movement, four male dancers capture images of men society has shaped them to be. The movements express the discourse that while a human is made of two parts-the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine, oru society tells us that only one side is allowed to be shown, thereby creating an imbalance.


DAY 5

CLOSING PERFORMANCES, Main Theater, Chaktomuk Conference Hall
ISMAEL AT ISABEL, Philippine Educational Theater Association (Philippines)
In line with the 20th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, PETA produced this moving story about two children, a Christian and a Muslim- Ismail and Isabel who were once blind to their religious differences until the war reached their small village in Mindanao. Now faced with the reality of discrimination, intolerance, war and violence, the two are chattered and can only find peace in telling and re-telling the folktales once told by their parents.
ECLIPSE (excerpts),Phare Ponlue Selpak (Cambodia)
Excerpts from the performanceset in a fictional village, Eclipse where locals discriminate anyone different. A strange looking man who falls victim to this discrimination prays for divine intervention. The gods responded by turning hin into a beautiful woman who steals the hearts of all the village men.