Berkeley Days

2025, Chinese. Directed by Clifford Choi.

“Berkeley Days”is a stage play from true characters and true events, which relates an autobiographical story of its playwright and director Clifford Kai Kwong Choi, and his school mates in the years of 1969-1973. He was studying English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. They discussed how they made their choices in the selection of universities and majors. They dug into the history of why the Cantonese, in the past hundred years or so, made a series of efforts to overturn the emperors of the Ching Dynasty. They suffered severe cultural shock when they witnessed the Free Speech Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations by the American students. They loved the experience of mingling and exchanging ideas with the hippies….

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Language

Chinese

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