Presented by Thai Health and Information Services, Inc.
Mantra Theatre
Legend of the Chao Phraya: The Siamese River of Life
Sat. August 30 at 8 p.m.
L.A. and Thai artists illuminate the story of a Siamese queen and her people through a broad spectrum of Thai arts including dance, boxing, spear and sword fighting and live music highlighted by an ensemble of Thai drums.
Full price $30
Buy 3 or more events and pay only $24
Students and children $5
Open seating
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“We hope to enchant the audience with a cultural tale set in 18th century Siam,” says Fontip Seeboonruang, a co-producer of the show and a percussionist in the musical ensemble. “The production imaginatively weaves together Thai drama, classical music, dance and martial arts in a new, contemporary form. It will be a magical evening for those who enjoy Thai culture or innovative new theatre.”
Mantra Theatre is a Thai Contemporary Music and Dance Ensemble established in 1997 by a group of artists from Thailand who resided in the Los Angeles area. With a background in
various forms of arts, they decided to come together to promote and preserve the Thai arts by combining it with more modern forms of music and dance in order to make it more exciting and captivating to a foreign audience. Since its establishment, many of the ensemble’s members have returned to Thailand to work in Thailand’s booming music industry, as producers, musicians and vocalists. With the departing of many of their members, Mantra Theatre recruited a new generation of musicians with degrees in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, and background in both Western Classical Music and Thai Traditional Music.
Legend of the Chao Phraya is produced by Mantra Theatre and presented by the Thai Health And Information Services, Inc. (THAIS), a non-profit organization offering healthcare access, referral and social services to the local Thai community. |
