Roots
Winner of Best Design at the Auckland Fringe Festival 2018
presented as part of the Auckland Fringe Festival
and the Auckland Lantern FestivaL
"Human being make mistakes. Our ancestors are human, too."
One of Singapore's most beloved solo shows, Roots is one woman’s quest to find her familial identity in the cultural confusion of Singapore. With parallels to New Zealand's youthful cultural identity, Roots is a universal story of the surprises and hardships in discovering who you are and what you're made of.
Sound design: Tom Dennison
Assistant Stage Manager: Nahyeon Lee
Poster design:Lindsay Yee
Poster image: Andi Crown
Writer: Oliver Chong
Director: Chye-Ling Huang
Producer: Julie Zhu
Starring: Amanda Grace Leo
Stage manager,operator & Chinese marketing: Helen Wu
Photography: Andi Crown
Presented in two venues, Uxbridge Arts Centre in Howick and Q Theatre in central city, winning Best Design (Fringe Awards) for its set of 125kgs of rice strewn across the stage and cymbals, with sprinkled rice and clanging gongs creating an analog soundscape. Roots was performed in both English and Mandarin for its New Zealand premier, with surtitles projected in both Mandarin and English.
Reviews
“Huang’s direction is incredibly well-measured. It’s detailed yet subtle, allowing Leo to focus on the story being told while maintaining a natural strong and consistent theatrical flow…an excellent example of interculturalism and our ability to accept bicultural narratives in New Zealand theatre.” - Theatrescenes.co.nz
“Leo is a larger than life character, and she breathes into Hsu Hsien a fiery tenacity that is at once immensely likeable and achingly earnest.” - Hainamana.com
With big thanks to The Finger Players, Oliver Chong and Natalie Chai.
Proudly Asian Theatre为您带来，
为奥克兰元宵灯会节及奥克兰Fringe艺术节节目之一：
根
编剧: 钟达成
“人类都会犯错。我们的祖先也是人。有没有人知道真相是什么？”
来到中国，Amanda 决心要甩掉她”文化孤儿”的标签。但她在这儿的根与许多秘密缠绕在一起-究竟谁和哪儿才是真正的家乡？
新加坡最受喜爱的独演话剧之一，钟达成的《根》是一个女人在文化迷乱的新加坡中，寻找自己家族身份的的故事。与新西兰青年文化身份接轨，《根》是一个能享誉全球，能让人们在欣喜和困难中寻找到自己的故事。
《根》将以中英双语在新西兰首映。界时将有中英双语字幕投影。
主演： Amanda Grace Leo 梁宿娴
导演：Chye-Ling Huang 黄采婈