Lao Jiu (The Ninth Child)
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| Venue | Victoria Theatre, Singapore, Singapore | ||||||||||
| Umbrella Event | Singapore Festival of Arts 1990 | ||||||||||
| First Date | 21 June 1990 | ||||||||||
| Last Date | 23 June 1990 | ||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||
| Description | Practice, which is accounted one of Singapore's oldest and best established drama groups presents Lao Jiu a new play commissioned by the Festival, written and directed by one of Singapore's most talented and respected dramatists, Kuo Pao Kun. The title character, LAO JIU, the ninth child, is born with the best of everything in a huge, extended family. He is talented, intelligent, good looking, charming, and the focus of all their love and attention, until he decides to forfeit an excellent academic career to devote himself to a dying Puppet Master. | ||||||||||
| Description Source | Programme | ||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||
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Puppetry Martial Arts Movement-based Theatre |
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| Text Nationality | Singapore | ||||||||||
| Production Nationality | Singapore | ||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
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| Event Identifier | 211999 | ||||||||||
| Dataset | AusStage | ||||||||||
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