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JCNAP collaborates with Urban Renewal Authority to organize The Happy Poor Guys Exhibitions, which will showcase the behind-the-scene production process, as well as to share the recordings made during chat-chit sessions with elderly about their “Tai Tat Tei” days.

Riding on the resounding success of last production Saxo Carnival of the Animals, La Sax teams up with acclaimed Hong Kong musician and children entertainer Harry Wong to take you on a spectacular music journey, with mesmerizing melodies and toe-tapping fun. Interspersed between lively musical notes are explosions of laughters-so expect to be ‘blown away’!
Musical selections will include classical, jazz and modern pieces. Plus a few familiar tunes, a little magic trick and some audience participation. Get ready for a jolly good time at this Saxophony party!

The grand dance poem Dunhuang Reflections is a reinterpretation of the Dunhuang murals and its aesthetics, where past and present come together to form a Hong Kong-specific Dunhuang impression.
“Apsaras playing musical instruments”, “Music and dance scene with Pipa played behind the back”-the wondrous cosmic world of Dunhuang is represented before the audience through dance, body and demeanour of the dancers, combined with stage effects and flamboyant costumes, culminating in a grand dance poem that is both artistic and entertaining. While the audiences experience the divine realm and the glorious past of Dunhuang, the Chinese philosophy of life is also conveyed to them through the delicate, elegant and classic dance.

Riding on the resounding success of last production Saxo Carnival of the Animals, La Sax teams up with acclaimed Hong Kong musician and children entertainer Harry Wong to take you on a spectacular music journey, with mesmerizing melodies and toe-tapping fun. Interspersed between lively musical notes are explosions of laughters-so expect to be ‘blown away’!
Musical selections will include classical, jazz and modern pieces. Plus a few familiar tunes, a little magic trick and some audience participation. Get ready for a jolly good time at this Saxophony party!

A Legend Retold through the Art of the Body
“The disaster of lower palace” ── Against the backdrop of the Era of Spring and Autumn, a tragedy arose from the slaughter of noble clan of Zhao in the Jin State by the treacherous minister, Tu’an Gu who framed them up, and ended with the revenge by the surviving orphan of Zhao after grown up. Being the first Chinese drama translated into European languages, this enduring tale also fell into the hands of numerous historians and artists, where traces of the tale are scattered in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji), Commentary of Zuo (Zuo Zhuan), New Preface (Xin Xu) and Garden of Sayings (Shuo Yuan).
The Orphan of Zhao presented in Peking Opera was the most poignant one, with the sacrifice of the minister Gongsun Chujiu and Cheng Ying’s own baby boy in replacement for the orphan of Zhao. Another version recorded in the Aristocratic Family of Zhao, Shi Ji, however, stated that Cheng Ying didn’t swap his own son for the orphan, but displacing so with the baby of his neighbor instead. Yet, Zuo Zhuan narrated an entirely different story, revealing the slaughter had nothing to do with heartrending moments or a call for justice, but just the result of adultery between the uncle and nephew’s wife. As with any classic, numerous versions exist. Can we find out the absolute truth? Without stage settings nor historical costumes, the show retells the legend in sinuous, metaphorical body movements. A powerful piece not to be missed!

Life: Laugh or long?
An old man misuses drugs and must be sent to the hospital at once. Yet, having found out that it’ll be a paineless way of dying, he realises this is probably a once-in-a-life-time opportunity for”The Big Happy Dying” – a change not to be missed! Going into hospital?What a stupid choice! His young grandson, however, persuades grandpa to live rather than die. Is life a matter of everlasting time, or just an embrace of moments that matter to you most?
The Big Happy Dying was first created in2007. Responding to the current social landscape, the drama group reworked the script to explore life and death in a lively and hilarious wat while enteraining and inspiring at the same time. An inevitable clash between the two generations derives a dialogue of life and death at the very last moment of life, a battle of ideologies as well as a reflection of the meaning of life itself and the sttitude towards death.

Life: Laugh or long?
An old man misuses drugs and must be sent to the hospital at once. Yet, having found out that it’ll be a paineless way of dying, he realises this is probably a once-in-a-life-time opportunity for”The Big Happy Dying” – a change not to be missed! Going into hospital?What a stupid choice! His young grandson, however, persuades grandpa to live rather than die. Is life a matter of everlasting time, or just an embrace of moments that matter to you most?
The Big Happy Dying was first created in2007. Responding to the current social landscape, the drama group reworked the script to explore life and death in a lively and hilarious wat while enteraining and inspiring at the same time. An inevitable clash between the two generations derives a dialogue of life and death at the very last moment of life, a battle of ideologies as well as a reflection of the meaning of life itself and the sttitude towards death.

A Legend Retold through the Art of the Body
“The disaster of lower palace” ── Against the backdrop of the Era of Spring and Autumn, a tragedy arose from the slaughter of noble clan of Zhao in the Jin State by the treacherous minister, Tu’an Gu who framed them up, and ended with the revenge by the surviving orphan of Zhao after grown up. Being the first Chinese drama translated into European languages, this enduring tale also fell into the hands of numerous historians and artists, where traces of the tale are scattered in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji), Commentary of Zuo (Zuo Zhuan), New Preface (Xin Xu) and Garden of Sayings (Shuo Yuan).
The Orphan of Zhao presented in Peking Opera was the most poignant one, with the sacrifice of the minister Gongsun Chujiu and Cheng Ying’s own baby boy in replacement for the orphan of Zhao. Another version recorded in the Aristocratic Family of Zhao, Shi Ji, however, stated that Cheng Ying didn’t swap his own son for the orphan, but displacing so with the baby of his neighbor instead. Yet, Zuo Zhuan narrated an entirely different story, revealing the slaughter had nothing to do with heartrending moments or a call for justice, but just the result of adultery between the uncle and nephew’s wife. As with any classic, numerous versions exist. Can we find out the absolute truth? Without stage settings nor historical costumes, the show retells the legend in sinuous, metaphorical body movements. A powerful piece not to be missed!

Riding on the resounding success of last production Saxo Carnival of the Animals, La Sax teams up with acclaimed Hong Kong musician and children entertainer Harry Wong to take you on a spectacular music journey, with mesmerizing melodies and toe-tapping fun. Interspersed between lively musical notes are explosions of laughters-so expect to be ‘blown away’!
Musical selections will include classical, jazz and modern pieces. Plus a few familiar tunes, a little magic trick and some audience participation. Get ready for a jolly good time at this Saxophony party!