The Veil Of Happiness (Le Voile du Bonheur) by Georges Clemenceau - vOilah! 2020 opening programme

The Veil Of Happiness - A centennial commemoration as vOilah! 2020 opening programme
with French subtitles embedding Clemenceau's original script
A fiery anti-colonialist statesman fascinated by the Far East, Georges Clemenceau wrote a play (Le Voile du Bonheur) that takes place in a fantasised China and tells a witty, funny, entertaining philosophical tale about truth and happiness. Performed in Paris, the United States and China and adapted into a musical and two silent movies, it is a forgotten gem of the Belle Époque, for which French famous composer Gabriel Fauré had created an oriental-inspired incidental music. The script and the score were revived in a dramatised reading set up in Singapore on 22 October 2020 for the opening of the 2020 vOilah! festival, to commemorate the centennial of Clemenceau's journey to Singapore, with 8 actors (including multi-awards winning veterans Janice Koh, Lim Yu-Beng, Hossan Leong and Remesh Panicker) and 8 musicians from the YST Conservatory of Music.
The Veil Of Happiness
A play by Georges Clemenceau
First translated in English by T. M. Cleland
Directed by Marc Goldberg
Assisted by Rossiana Nasir
Performed by Lim Yu-Beng, Janice Koh, Hossan Leong, Remesh Panicker, Matt Grey, Gauraangi Chopra, Aaron Ee and Wang Shao Kai.
With incidental music by Gabriel Fauré performed by Kong Xiang Lester, Felita Eleonora, Cao Lan, Kamilla Nurmatova, Yang Shun-Ming, Viktoriya Klyukina, Chen I-Ching, Nuttakamon Supattranont and Thanaphat Pratjaroenwanit.