Hungry ghost festival/festival of the skulls. (Global Spotlight).(Brief Article)
American Theatre, July, 2002
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Georgetown, Malaysia, and Aguascalientes, Mexico.
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During the August Full Moon, the residents of the Chinese quarter of Georgetown, in Malaysia, let their ghosts out of purgatory for no less worthy reason than to get a bite to eat. The Hungry Ghost Festival treats spirits to big bowls of noodles, sweetmeats and cakes. And there's dinner theatre, too: Performances of operas and puppet shows play on every street corner. Yet on the 30th day of the seventh moon, the gates shut behind the ghosts back in Hades, where they resume their empty diet. Their ...
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