Camp Album Plays

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Marciano “Naneli” Baptista produced stunning scenery and documentation for the plays that were produced in Sham Shui Po Camp helped alleviate the tedium and hardship of slave labour and raised the morale of the inmates.  That he was able to create them is all the more remarkable considering the scarcity of resources in prison.  His fellow prisoners expressed their appreciation of his talent and dedication in the Hippodrome sketch at the end of this list of plays.  After the war, a grateful British government appointed him Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Aladdin

Act 1

Programme

Plot

Bayadere

Act 1

Act 2

Plot: Act 1

Plot: Act 2

The Blue Rose

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Plot p2

Cavalcade

Introduction

Cast

Plot

Club Canaluja

Programme

Cast p1

Cast p2

Dixie Minstrels

Play

Programme Part 1

Programme Part2

Here Comes Charlie

Cartoons

Cast

La Cigane

Songs

Programme

Production

Act 1

Plot p1

Cast

Plot p2

London Calling

Cast

The Maiden’s Head

Cast

Plot

Once in a Lifetime

Programme

Plot

Presently He Died

Cast

Plot

Shumshuipo

Sky’s the Limit

Where There’s a Will

Hippodrome

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