West Kowloon Cultural District The Room, Freespace WestK｜Hong Kong Musical Festival — Cabaret Musical Series：The many faces of Picasso (Musical Reading)

Description

Barr wants Americans to fall in love with Modern Art.

Picasso wants to maintain ownership over his paintings amidst his divorce.

Hitler wants to bury France in catastrophe.

Three people's desires inextricably intertwine, and will shape, colour and dictate the meaning of art for the rest of the world.

The excitement around Modern Art has yet to reach the States during the Roaring Twenties. The abstraction and unintelligibility of these new works were met with confusion and ridicule. Barr, being the anomaly, was entranced by Modern Art. Determined to make people see art the same way he does, he wrote papers dissecting the evolution of art phases, went to Europe to befriend artists and dealers, and most importantly became the artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art and staged exhibition upon exhibition that will educate the world of the avant-garde.

In order to fully demonstrate the strength of the new, a Picasso retrospective is requisite. The only thing standing in his way is Picasso's messy romantic scandals, and the fact that Europe is on the precipice of a brutally tragic war.

Language: Cantonese

Book, Music, Lyrics and Orchestrations: Chun To Yeung

Director: Curtis Yuen

Performer: Hugo Tung, Melo Man, Chun To Yeung, John Man, Natalie Hung^, Cecilia Lau

^With the kind permission of Yat Po Singers