Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind
Theatre, Esplanade, Singapore
28/1/2004
Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2004
Presented by Esplanade, Singapore
Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind was co-directed by Danny Yung and Mathias Woo. The Kunqu artist, Shi Xiaomei was invited from Nanjing for the performance. Sigmund Freud is one of the most important psychologists in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, and his publication The Interpretation of Dreams is also one of the most influential works which have great significance and impacts on human history. Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind was an experiment on merging Kunqu with multi-media art, with a reinterpretation of the Peony Pavilion, which is the most popular Chinese story about dreams of the 17th Century, and thus an appropriate topic for examination in this production.
