Butterfly Lovers is in the news!

Congratulations to Butterfly Lovers 梁祝 performers and helpers!

On 20 March 2019, local newspaper Sing Tao Daily featured the recent trilingual drama performed by SIS students. The show was an innovative re-creation of one of China’s greatest folktales which is known as the “Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet”, by SIS’ Chinese department.

The play was the first of its kind within ESF and SIS, written and performed in Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese) as well as English. As Tom Vignoles, Principal of SIS said: “It is something very old and also very new.”

For three evenings from 11 to 13 March, 21 talented SIS students from Years 7 to 12 brought fantastic music and entertaining drama to the audience. Another 25 students contributed to behind-the-scene preparations and marketing work, led by Mrs Bibi Holyoak, Teacher of Chinese at SIS.

“Our performers have been practising hard to ensure that the audience enjoys the best of music and drama experience”, said Mrs Holyoak. “This is part of our Chinese department’s continual efforts in celebrating international diversity at SIS and has proven to be a huge success. We will create more platforms for our students to showcase their Mandarin and Cantonese skills.”

Vienna Ng, the Year 12 student who played the role of Zhu Yingtai, said the drama inspired her interest in performing arts.

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