Leung chun ying biography of william shakespeare
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Carpe Diem
The exquisite stage design, entailing the University Mall and the Chapel, of CUHK’s 40th anniversary drama Of Phoenix Lineage still lingers in my mind. Time flies. CUHK has entered into its 55th anniversary, and a charity drama My Love was premiered at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in late August. I was pleased to have attended the cultural guldgruva again.
Dr. Leung Fung-yee, Anita, our history alumna and a financial fiction writer, is the playwright of My Love, about the tragic love story between members of two feuding families, the Nans and the Yings. Nan Quanbi and Ying Shuhang fall in love when they are Chung Chi College students. Quanbi goes into business studies after graduation, during which time the Nan family breaks up as they fall into the Yings’ trap. As time goes by, Quanbi has become a top financial expert. She liquidates Shuhang’s fortune in the Asian Financial Crisis for revenge, but leaves him a last straw.
The story spans across Hong
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Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University’s John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, visited NTU and spoke on “Shakespeare’s Life Stories” on July 5. While thunder and lightning raged outside, Greenblatt took the full-house audience in the General Library’s auditorium by storm with sweeping knowledge, infused with gentle persuasiveness and beguiling stories. His lecture was the inaugural venture of the Taiwan Shakespeare Association. Joining NTU faculty, represented by Deputy Dean Luisa Shu-Ying Chang of the College of Liberal Arts, in welcoming Greenblatt were Pin-chia Feng of the National Science Council, Judy Celine Ick of the Asian Shakespeare Association, and I-chun Wang of the English and American Literature Association of the Republic of China and the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. The event was sponsored by the National Science Council and NTU’s College of frikostig Arts.
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Bernice Kwok-wai Chan*
Abstract
Theatrical works can now be documented with a range of new technologies; however, photography is still the most expressive and means of recording theatre. This essay reflects the curatorial progress of an exhibition about theatre photography and highlights some images which could illustrate a few memorable moments of Hong Kong theatre.
Keywords: Hong Kong, theatre, photography, performances, decisive moment, performativity
Theatrical works can now be documented with a range of new technologies; however, I believe that photography is still the most expressive means of recording theatre. As a mode of temporal representation, theatre foregrounds ongoing motion, while photography utilizes still images which crystallize movements on stage in decisive moments, moments which are delicate and poetic, yet full of imagination.
It is difficult to judge whether or not a particular still image can truly represent a performance, especially since video