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”The Little Prince” to go on Saigon stage, in English
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VietNamNet Bridge – Nicaraguan director Jaime Zuniga will bring “The Little Prince”, a famous work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, to HCM City’s stage.
Director Jaime Zuniga and actress Lan Phuong.
The play will have the participation of 5-6 Vietnamese and foreign actors. Some of them will play several roles. Vietnamese actress Lan Phuong will play the part of the little Princess. A Pakistani actress will play the rose. Nguyen Ha Tu Trinh will be the snake. American guy Aaron Toronto plays the pilot as well as the narrator. The director himself will play the fox.
The Dragon Fly troupe of director Zunegava is practicing very hard to launch the play in October.
In director Jaime Zuniga's apartment on a weekend day, Lan Phuong held the script in her hand and murmured English words. After a variety of roles on stage and screen, Lan Phuong was happy and surprised to be invited to play the little Prince. The actress has felt in love with the famous literary and romantic story and the charming prince. "I could not imagine that one day I become him (little Prince) to wander through planets, to talk with a rose and a fox," she said.
Lan Phuong said she met many challenges to act as the Little Prince because the play is entirely in English; the drama as well as the original work are for children but with high philosophy, filled with messages for everyone. Especially the main character is at the age of 8-10.
"Fortunately, I like playing with children. The dialogue in the script is not too refined, amplifying," she added.
Lan Phuong has read the translation by late poet Bui Giang and the English version of The Little Prince to understand more about the character.
Dragon Fly drama group director Jaime staging Zunegava "The Little Prince", is expected early May 10 HCMC debut.
This is the third English play, directed by Jaime Zunegava, to be performed on HCM City stage. Previously, “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “The Last Five Years” of the Dragonfly troupe were highly appreciated by the audience.
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was first published in 1943. This work has inspired the world stage with a lot of dramas adapted from the popular novel.
When he decided to move to Vietnam in November 11, 2008, Jaime Zunegava did not think that would do anything related to theater stage whether he liked drama. He used to try the work of an actor, a director, and a producer.
"My purpose in Vietnam is to do in the logistics industry (logistics industry) rather than the stage. Then the love of art and the appeal of art made me to decide to set up my own troupe," he said.
The long-term goal of Dragonfly Theatre is to become a professional English drama troupe in Ho Chi Minh City, serving domestic and foreign audiences who live and work here.
"We hope the Vietnamese audience will feel more confident when they came up with a play in English and be able to enjoy it, especially students. We expect to arrange several dramas each year and each drama can attract the audience for weeks like other big stages in Ho Chi Minh City do", the director said.
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Sep
25
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Schumann, Alpers return to capital
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VietNamNet Bridge – A concert under the baton of German conductor Christian Schumann, one of the finest young conductors in the world, accompanied by pianist Hinrich Alpers will be held in Hanoi Opera House at 8 p.m. on September 27.
The night will start with the work Egmont from ‘Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’ by Beethoven and also includes concerto grosso for violin, piano, percussion and strings by Nguyen Manh Duy Linh. Audiences will be also entertained with concerto No.40 in G minor by Mozart.
The show will also feature the talents of violinist Bui Cong Duy and pianist Pham Nguyen Anh Vu.
Alpers’ performances are often recorded for radio and television broadcasts. He currently teaches piano at the University of Music and Drama of Hanover.
Schumann has already led internationally-renowned orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tickets are priced at VND250,000 and VND500,000 at the Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street.
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Sep
25
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Luu Huynh’s much-hyped lay chong nguoi ta has arrived
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VietNamNet Bridge – Despite losing out on an international film prize at Toronto International Film Festival, Saigon film fans are in for an award-winning weekend at the movies with Lay chong nguoi ta (In the name of love) by overseas Vietnamese director Luu Huynh.
“Lay Chong Nguoi Ta” to attend Toronto Film Fest
The controversial movie premiered at the festival with the return of Huynh after he captured the headlines for Ao lua Ha Dong (The White Silk Dress) and Huyen thoai bat tu (The legend is alive).
Huynh focuses on the dark and harrowing tale of Lua (Dinh Y Nhung), a poor girl from a small fishing village. Lua and her husband Khanh (Huy Khanh) are very much in love and live a simple life. The day their first child is born is the happiest in their lives. That happiness doesn’t last as one night a stranger (Thai Hoa) steals the newly-born and claims it as his own in the village as he tries to ruin their lives to make up for his own despair.
The story promises to be a real tearjerker as it features a dark side of poor people living near the water. When the teaser from the movie, which is inspired by the traditional Greek tragedy, was unveiled to the public in May, it caused a huge controversy due to a highly-charged sex scene involving Nhung and Khanh. Definitely one to watch folks, so remember to order your tickets online at Megastar and Galaxy cinemas near you.
On a lighter note, The Watch also comes to town this weekend reuniting Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn who were such a huge hit in Dodgeball as the leaders of a neighborhood watch team in suburban America. Well, they are more like middle-aged men who fancy doing something a bit more exciting to get away from their dead-end jobs and lives.
Directed by Akvia Schaffer and written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, we follow Evan (Stiller) a Cosco manager who forms the watch after his friend is murdered and also because he has no friends. Bob (Vaughn) uses his role in the team to spy on his teenage daughter. Also in the team is Jonah Hill as Franklin a resident with emotional problems who joins the watch after being rejected by the local police and Richard Ayoade as Jamarcus who is just recently divorced.
When they uncover an alien plot that threatens the world, they are forced into action.
Finally, we have 3D Resident Evil: Retribution starring the gorgeous Milla Jovovich which is the fifth installment of the tremendously-successful saga which has grossed US$700 million.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the latest entry sees the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continuing to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of flesh-eating undead.
The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she hunts down those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true.
Aided and abetted by new allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion.
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Nam Dinh to celebrate royal heritage
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25/09/2012 09:32:21
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Elle Autumn-Winter Fashion Show 2012
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25/09/2012 09:31:04
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Hanoi’s autumn colors shine in Saigon
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25/09/2012 09:27:59
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Vietnam wins two gold medals at Int’l Circus Festival
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25/09/2012 09:26:56
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Pens at the ready for prestigious national writing competition
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25/09/2012 09:21:24
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Hawaii guitar melodies touch hearts
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25/09/2012 09:17:33
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Hanoi hosts exhibition of Japanese KIRIGAMI
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25/09/2012 09:15:45
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Vietnamese-origin writer wins US National Book Award
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25/09/2012 08:45:04
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Nguyen Truong Son wins first prize at Davines hair show
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25/09/2012 08:36:03
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