In 2002, the troupe presented Chu Hak’s “Romance of Xiguan” and received an overwhelming response. One decade later, acclaimed actor-director Lester Chan is bringing to the stage Chu Hak’s sequel, having adapted it to create an unparallelled multimedia epic in “Tearless Honour”. The production tells the story of a family migrating from Guangzhou to Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, a period that changed forever the relationship between the Mainland and Hong Kong, and dictated the development of post-war Hong Kong society up to now.<\/p>\n
“Tearless Honour” tells of a young man’s call to honour and his journey in serving a devastated China during the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War in the 1930s and ’40s. Chan Ka-tung, the protagonist, was born into a rich family in Xiguan, Guangzhou. Like those in Generation Y today, he aspires to a bright future. But the Japanese invasion of China becomes his call, and he joins the army to serve his country. The experience of war, love and politics, however, brings about his girlfriend’s death, as well as his flight from the country.<\/p>\n
Upon resettlement in Hong Kong, Chan is again thrown into the ravages of war by the Japanese invasion. He and his family have to tackle the enemy with wit, yet, to his great dismay, he witnesses the death of his family and friends while narrowly escaping for survival abroad. On his return to Hong Kong after the war, he discovers that his home was ruined by the “Allies’ mis-bombing”. The many vicissitudes in life, nevertheless, seem to have led Chan to see the root of culture and heritage in one’s integrity. Decades later, he still hears vividly a song sung by a group of retreating students, whom he met en route in a serendipitous encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373364,373315],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[365762],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1301406","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-theatre-drama-en","event_category-theatre-en","area_type-local","event_language-cantonese","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1301406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1301406"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1301406"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1301406"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1301406"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1301406"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1301406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}