“It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!” they sang. “Will you join in our crusade? Who Online Cigarettes Store USA will be strong and stand with me?”
The amateur troupe, dressed in black, which has become the color of protest in Hong Kong, is made up of volunteers who responded to an online appeal for singers and musicians.
Singer Harriet Chung said their aim is to tour the show to all 18 of Hong Kong's districts. Tuesday's performance Newport 100s Box was the troupe's third, staged in a park in Tai Po in the New Territories that are north of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon and which butt up against mainland China.
“It is a very powerful work that everyone needs in such a time in Hong Kong,” Chung said. “There’s a lot of violence. There’s a lot of injustice around. But this piece is about love and power and what you can do for love, for your ideals, for your ideas, so that is why we want to pass this message to everyone in Hong Kong."
With no costumes and minimalist lighting, the show lacks the big-ticket stagecraft of Hollywood, Broadway and Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes London West End cousins but packs a powerful emotional punch in the febrile atmosphere of anti-government protest in Hong Kong.
Wiping away tears that welled behind his glasses, red-eyed spectator Herman Tang said the song “Bring Him Home” made him think of protesters who were trapped by a police siege of a university campus last month.
“Very moved,” he said. “Some of the words in the song echo the current situation in Hong Kong."