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Having just endured his mother’s death, losing his job, and his wife requesting a divorce, a man at the end of his tether brings his father plagued with Alzheimer’s to the bathroom and falls asleep. When he awakes, he finds only his father’s shed skin. The father gets younger by 20 years, and in the following days becomes increasingly more youthful, and the filial relationship is altered forever.

This is an adaptation of the last work of Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. The story is about a tyrannical mother Bernarda Alba who keeps her five daughters under her inexorable control, reflecting the pressure of social norms on humanity. Her five daughters longing for freedom attempt to rebel against their mother’s dictatorship and end up in a tragedy. The play is presented in dance theatre form to explore themes of repression, passion and conformity.

“The vitality of dance blossoms alongside the poetic language of Lorca…the struggle of the human condition and the tension of the drama stretched beyond the theatre.”
–Information Times

“The rhythm of the drama flows consistently with the movement of dancers. This is probably the perfect integration of poetic theatre and modern dance.”
–Newsletter, On and On Theatre

The Soong family was the most powerful and prominent in recent Chinese history – the three Soong daughters – Ai-ling, Ching-ling and May-ling were brought up in the most prestigious of institutions, and heavily influenced by Western culture. They married three of the most important men in China of their time – H. H. Kung , Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. In this tumultuous era, each sister’s fate is a legend in its own right, their glamour and allure captivated the public’s imagination in ways unmatched by their peers.

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