2006.12-2007.03: 我家有個大門神

After two and something months of puppet making, rehearsals, etc our show finally hit the road. Our first show was at Tze Wan Shan housing estate, between a shopping center and their football basketball pitches. Frankly, I was surprised at how magical the big puppets were to the children.

This show has a large audience participation component, in which the puppeteer team has 45 minutes to train a group of audience members in flag waving, a shield dance and puppet manipulation. So the bulk of my work in this show is less in performance and more in teaching the children or whoever shows up their moves.

In the end I got a strong sense that pull of this show is really not on the acting, singing or even the script. The crowd yesterday sat through basically two runs (dress and the actual performance) because they wanted to watch their child or neighbours in their community perform. And so kids tripped over their flags, the formations were a complete mess, but at the end of the day, none of that mattered. They were having fun.

Eleven more shows to go...

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我家有個大門神 "The Doorgods of my home"

(Sundays: 1pm audience participation, 3pm performance)
10/12/2006 葵芳邨羅馬廣場
17/12/2006 粉嶺華明邨露天劇場
07/01/2007 赤柱廣場
14/01/2007 香港文化中心廣場C區
21/01/2007 大埔中央廣場
28/01/2007 愛東邨露天廣場
25/02/2007 天頌苑露天廣場
11/02/2007 秀茂坪廣場
11/03/2007 西貢海濱公園
18/03/2007 沙田大會堂廣場
25/03/2007 屯門公園（屯門大會堂）

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