96 art & culture
An award-winning adaption of one of the most powerful modern
plays exploring the issues surrounding life, love and death
is on its way to Macau - this is one you cannot afford to miss
by Jack Regan
INCE the hardback “Tuesdays with Morrie” was with Morrie” in the HKSAR in 2007 and 2008. It was
published in 2002 and the internationally best-selling an immediate hit and a tribute to the two actors and Ko’s
paperback in 2006, it is reckoned that 11 million ingenious adjustment to the Cantonese context.
copies of Mitch Albom’s uplifting true story of his relationship “The show will stir the same emotions with Macau
with his intuitive professor Morrie Schwartz have been sold. audiences,’’ those behind the show insist.
The play has also been made into a TV movie and its
influence has spawned debates across the globe about the true Moving fortnight
meaning of life, and death. The play tells the true story of Mitch Albom and his
professor Morrie Schwartz, whose incurable disease makes
Chinese take him unable to move. But he can talk, and his words contain
Now, you have the opportunity see Hong Kong’s Chung powerful messages.
Ying Theatre Company’s ground-breaking stage adaptation of Successful sports journalist Albom is strangely unfulfilled
the piece - in Cantonese. in life and, on learning of his college teacher’s illness, spends
Best-actor winners Chung King Fai and Edmond Lo will 14 Tuesday’s with his dying mentor.
star in three performances of the show on the 15th and 17th The results are a series of stirring insights into love, work,
of May - a special matinee will run on the 17th - at the Macau marriage, children, forgiveness and death.
Cultural Centre. “Tuesday’s with Morrie at the Macau Cultural Centre will
Highly regarded director Ko Tin Lung successfully run for two hours and 15 minutes. Children under the age of
presented a total of 35 sold-out preformances of “Tuesday’s six will not be admitted and tickets are priced MOP140.
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