Hansel And Gretel 糖果屋

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor wood cutter. Fearing starvation, the wood cutter’s wife—the children’s step-mother—convinces him to lead the children into the forest, and abandon them there. Hansel and Gretel hear her plan, and gather white pebbles, to leave themselves a trail home. After their return, their stepmother again convinces the wood cutter to abandon them; this time however, they can only leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Unfortunately, the various animals of the woods eat their trail of breadcrumbs causing Hansel and Gretel to become lost.

Lost in the forest, they find a house made of gingerbread, with sugar windows, which they begin to eat. The inhabitant of the house, an old woman, invites them in and prepares a feast for them. The woman, however, is a witch who has built the house to entice children to her, so that she may fatten and eat them. She cages Hansel, and makes Gretel her servant. While she prepares to boil Hansel, she tells Gretel to climb into an oven to be sure it is ready to bake; but Gretel guesses that the witch intends to bake her, and tricks the witch into climbing into the oven, closing it behind her.

Taking jewels from the witch’s house, they set off for home to be reunited with their father, whose wife has since died. Then all anxiety was at an end, and where they lived happily ever after.

Presented by:
Good News Artspace

Date & Time:
31 Oct 1pm, 4pm, 8pm
1 Nov 3pm, 6pm, 8pm

Venue:
indicine, klpac

Show Duration:
55 minutes with no intermission

Ticket Price:
RM45 standard

*All tickets are inclusive of RM3 ticket handling fee & 6% GST

Beijing Opera Excerpts

Beijing Opera is a combination of chang (singing), nian (dialogue), zuo (pantomime) and da (acrobatic fighting and dancing). Its repertoire is often derived from tales of the past- important historical events, legends of emperors and generals, geniuses and beauties. There are four major roles – sheng (male), dan (young female), jing (painted face, male) and chou (clown, male and female) where each can be divided into more roles.

Taking the stage to present excerpts of the famous Beijing Opera are Li Li, a graduate from National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院) who is studying the roles of “dan” (young female) and a member of Beijing Opera Company (北京京剧院); and Jia Jinsong, who is well sort-after in the role of “lao sheng” and an lecturer of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

Cover Charge: RM 100

Linklater’s Voice Workshop For Actors, Public Speakers And Everyday Communicators

L Shakespeare Players is pleased to invite you to:

LINKLATER’S VOICE WORKSHOP for actors, public speakers and every communicators
conducted by Christina Koch


Date
3-4 & 10-11 October 2015

Time
10am-6pm, with an hour lunch break
( Total 28 workshop hours)

Venue
Studio RH
8A Jalan Tepian Tunku

Fee
RM 600.00

Registration Form
http://klshakespeare.com.my/documents/RegistrationForm.doc

Registration Deadline
25 Sep 2015

For more details, please contact klsp@klshakespeare.com.my, or call Kien Lee at 012-653 0987

WHY PARTICIPATE?
A systematic and proper voice training course for actors is a rarity in Malaysia. While there are many vocal instructors, most of them focus on singing techniques. And although speaking and singing share some fundamental concepts, their approaches are different and not mutually replaceable.

How often do you hear a musical theatre actor sing beautifully and passionately, but when he/she starts to speak, it sounds disconnected?

Many aspiring actors (and some experienced ones, too) have to always deal with the so-called ‘voice projection’ issue. They either speak too softly, or end up shouting most of their lines. Even when the volume is appropriate, the uttered words sometimes do not seem to connect to the impulses, the intentions.

This workshop will open the door to finding and freeing your natural voice–a voice that is connected to impulses, and expresses what you (or the character) truly intend to communicate. It is not about speaking beautifully, but expressing with full intention and impact.

ABOUT KRISTIN LINKLATER’S VOICE TRAINING
Kristin Linklater is an influential voice teacher, who has developed a series of vocal training methods that have helped many–actors, public speakers and everyday communicators–to understand and improve the quality of their vocal expressions.

Her well-known students include Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard and Bill Murray.

ABOUT CHRISTINA KOCH, the vocal coach
Christina Koch is a certified Linklater voice instructor. She is also an accomplished actor and director with twenty years of experience. An Australian, Christina is currently based in Kuala Lumpur and provides voice, speech and language coaching in her home country and South East Asian one