Ma-tou Theatre Set to Close

One of Tainan County’s last remaining theatre houses, positioned downtown in Tainan County’s Ma-tou City, is unable to bear the long-term financial losses any longer, and as a result will close down for good at the end of the month. As the theatre has a long fifty-year history and holds many memories for the people of Matou, it was no surprise that on hearing the sad news of Matou Theatre’s demise many people rushed back to Matou to take in the theatre’s unique experience and reminisce on their youth one last time.

With a history extending back sixty years to the Japanese era, the Quan-mei theatre is the only other long-established theatre house in Tainan. However, even though the Quan-mei theatre has a sixty-year history it is by no means bound up in convention and has combined its history and culture to create new opportunities, developing a serious of related products and opening up the space inside the theatre to hold a number of special activities, allowing the theatre to expand into new areas and open up new possibilities.

Ma-tou Theatre Set to Close – Old Theatre’s Struggle for Survival (by CJ Dept. of Mass Communication)

URL:http://www.peopo.org/news/67542

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