Book Launch: Basic Cantonese Opera Script Writing

Authors: Mr. Yip Siu Tak, Mr. Yuen Siu Fai and Dr. Ng Fung Ping

Date: January 11, 2012 (Wednesday)

Time: 2:00 pm

Venue: Room 402, Runme Shaw Building, HKU

Speakers:

Mr. Chi-kei Lee, Chairman of the editorial board

Mr. Yuen Siu Fai, Author and editor

Dr Ng Fung Ping, Author and editor



	(from left) Dr. Ng Fung Ping, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Author and editor) and Mr. Lee Chi Kei, Chairman of the editorial board.

With the efforts of Mr. Yip and the Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong (Barwo), the Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong launched the first Cantonese opera script writing course in 2008. Thank to the support from the Cantonese Opera Development Fund, CACLER cooperated with Barwo to start the “Action Research on Teaching Cantonese Opera Script Writing” alongside the course.

The first stage of the project was to start a script writing course taught by the opera experts of Barwo. Instructors included Yuen Siu-fai, Chi-Kei Lee, Law Ka-ying, Lui Hung-kwong, Sun Kim-long, Ko Yun-kuen and Ko Yun-hung. They also drafted the content of the course and provided teaching materials, while the research team from HKU recorded and analyzed the teaching and learning process. The later stage of the project focused on analyzing and organizing the teaching materials, polishing the course contents, assessing learning outcomes and structuring teaching theories.

The book Basic Cantonese Opera Script Writing (粵劇編劇基礎教程) is the research output of the above project. It is also the first textbook on Cantonese opera script writing in Hong Kong. It plays an important role in inheriting Cantonese opera, by systematically explaining the learning content of Cantonese opera script writing.

For enquiries, please contact Miss Bonnie Chan, Research Executive (yuenyanc@hku.hk).

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