Wah Yan Dramatic Society

The Wah Yan Dramatic Society was established over half century ago to try to bring all the magic and humour of the Chinese theatre to non-Chinese audiences, and yet later on their performances had been appreciated by majority of local Chinese audiences. They attempted to present these operas in English while retaining all the basic conventions and the spectacular costuming of a Chinese opera. The music, too, is genuinely Chinese with only the words of the songs are in English.

Souvenir from Fushan's Opera Museum

Wah Yan Dramatic Society has received a couple of gifts from Fushan's Opera Museum. The Souvenir is given by Mr Chu Kin Pui, the vice-President of Fushan's Opera Museum. Mr. Chu visited Mr Philip Ching and Mr Wong Chin Wah on first week of September. Click here to view the full images.

DVD AVAILABLE

The DVD of the WYDS Cantonese Opera in English 60th anniversary performance DVD is now available for sales.
Cost is HK$200 per set of two discs. Click on the pictures (above) for details.
The net proceeds will go to the School Development Project.
Besides, your support is vital to spread our unique Wah Yan Culture!!!
Interested Wahyanites & friends can call the Stella Ng of the School at 25722251 to secure a copy.

A HUGE SUCCESS

With the support of many many alumni, including many of the busiest people in town, parents or ex-parents, teachers, students and friends of Wah Yan, the 60th Anniversary performance by the Wah Yan Dramatic Society was successfully held at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in the evening of 7th February, 2007, honoured with the presence of our Chief Executive Mr. Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and raised over 4 million dollars for our School Redevelopment Project - thank you to all those who came and supported this function!

Here are a few pictures to re-cap this memorable evening:

Additional photographic records can be found here:

set 1

set 2

set 3

(Thanks to the Wah Yan Photography Team)

Video (Windows Media Player required)

(Thanks to the Wah Yan Campus TV Team)

During all these years, the Wah Yan Dramatic Society has been putting on operas to raise funds for schools, universities, hospitals, churches, charitable organisations, international societies etc. etc.

While working on these Chinese Operas in English, members of the Wah Yan Dramatic Society always have the feeling:

Be it the North, South, East or West
No nation should claim to be the best.
Strong or weak, rich or poor,
We still call each others "YOU"
HE helps HER, SHE helps HIM,
Does it matter WHOM or WHO?

Wong Sir on TV !

Wah Yan Dramatic Society in Foshan Museum