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Titoudao: Dawn of a New Stage (2023)

Titoudao: Dawn of a New Stage poster
Genre
drama film
Country
Singapore
Length
1 season, 8 episodes

How it feels

A theater play from Singapore gets adapted for television. It follows the story of a Chinese street opera performer navigating personal and professional changes.

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What happens

Titoudao is a play by Singaporean playwright Goh Boon Teck. It was first staged in Singapore at the Jubilee Hall Raffles Hotel by theatre company, Toy Factory Productions, in 1994. The play was restaged again in 2000, 2007, 2015 and 2024. In 2020, the play was adapted into a TV series on Mediacorp’s Channel 5 and Channel 8. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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