Gold Mountain is all about injustice that awaits people with the courage to go search fortune elsewhere. It is a story of Chinese men in Liverpool but it could also be about women, who try to get past the WASP system. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant - or Anglican in England - and while we're at it: the expression never mentions the word Male because it doesn't even come to mind that the question should be about anyone other than male. But let's get back to this great play called GOLD MOUNTAIN by LES DEUX MONDES.
Gold Mountain tells the story of different folks being paid less because... Why, actually? Because they look different? Because they're not related to the local politicians? What hidden mafias set those rules? Which key do we press to stop it? How else can hidden mafias work for their own? And then you might want to ask as you leave the theater: How would that half Chinese son be welcomed in his father's home village of China now that the fierce Kuomintang is no longer the sole authoritative ruler of the country? Would he be offered the same opportunities as any local? Or would he now be considered an invader trying to steal jobs or saved/shared resources while trying to build a gold mountain for himself so he can take it elsewhere to some other worldly or unworldly paradise unknown to the locals? Quite the theme: Live together... on equal grounds for white men and Chinks (and for women too maybe?).
Visual concept on the set is innovative multimedia with Chinese shadows. Actors move not exactly mountains but close.
Two men compose the entire actor team on stage. British Chinese writer David Yip who wrote the play performs the father figure, he who was not rich or corrupt enough for the family of the woman he loved, and then left his home village and walked barefoot to Hong Kong, and from there worked on a merchant ship all the way to Liverpool in search for a new life elsewhere, anywhere. His Liverpool's Chinatown raised son - born from a white English woman who had to live through prejudiced family rejection as a result of her marrying a Chink - is performed by Kevin Wong.
The play is in English with French surtitles.
Les deux mondes has done it again. This story - partly true with some fiction - must have been quite the challenge to bring together. It's been six years of work since that day of June 2007 when they first met to discuss the project.
Check out the video here
More info and details on Gold Mountain: http://servicesmontreal-eblog.blogspot.ca/2013/04/gold-mountain.html
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Gold Mountain tells the story of different folks being paid less because... Why, actually? Because they look different? Because they're not related to the local politicians? What hidden mafias set those rules? Which key do we press to stop it? How else can hidden mafias work for their own? And then you might want to ask as you leave the theater: How would that half Chinese son be welcomed in his father's home village of China now that the fierce Kuomintang is no longer the sole authoritative ruler of the country? Would he be offered the same opportunities as any local? Or would he now be considered an invader trying to steal jobs or saved/shared resources while trying to build a gold mountain for himself so he can take it elsewhere to some other worldly or unworldly paradise unknown to the locals? Quite the theme: Live together... on equal grounds for white men and Chinks (and for women too maybe?).
Visual concept on the set is innovative multimedia with Chinese shadows. Actors move not exactly mountains but close.
Two men compose the entire actor team on stage. British Chinese writer David Yip who wrote the play performs the father figure, he who was not rich or corrupt enough for the family of the woman he loved, and then left his home village and walked barefoot to Hong Kong, and from there worked on a merchant ship all the way to Liverpool in search for a new life elsewhere, anywhere. His Liverpool's Chinatown raised son - born from a white English woman who had to live through prejudiced family rejection as a result of her marrying a Chink - is performed by Kevin Wong.
The play is in English with French surtitles.
Les deux mondes has done it again. This story - partly true with some fiction - must have been quite the challenge to bring together. It's been six years of work since that day of June 2007 when they first met to discuss the project.
Check out the video here
More info and details on Gold Mountain: http://servicesmontreal-eblog.blogspot.ca/2013/04/gold-mountain.html
Since 2002 ServicesMontreal.com Female Phobia femmophobie.com
Cinema
Books, CDs,DVDs
Teen Literature about a Montreal-Vancouver Chinese: Caméra Danger PÉRIL SUR LA MONTAGNE
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