Singapore Arts Festival 2011: Memory II: Hunger 回忆 2: 饥饿 May 20, 2011

In this piece which focuses on the Great Famine, the artists selected 17 – 21 year old Chinese to go back to their hometowns to interview their own grandparents about the Cultural Revolution. During the interview, they would fall fell headlong into a fascinating conversation that would change them irrevocably from then on.
Audiences will be encouraged to fast the night before attending the show so that when they attend the show at 1 pm, they will actually feel what it is like to be hungry for the next 8 hours of the performance. This is a unique Performance Event for those who are game enough to experience fully a contemporary perspective of The Great Famine, which is highly participative and interactive. At the end of the show, performers and audience alike will participate in a communal meal to ‘break fast’ – a meal that the communist revolutionaries ate as a staple diet.

Tickets on sale at SISTIC.

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