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chronology
2024
considered to be Irish playwright Brian Friel’s masterpiece, unveiling a pool of fractured and contradictory memories.
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2023
Chekhov’s masterpiece explores a world of longing and desire yet without the ability to act as time slowly slips away.
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inspired by the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. A love story that spans 53 years 7 months and 11 days.
2022
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inspired by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit. The ending celebratory feast sparked off our creative process. Justice was served. She encountered him by the ocean.
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2021
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a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, directed by Paul Poon. When Deeley and his wife Kate are visited by her old friend Anna, tensions bubble up as memories become a weapon.
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2020
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a new 2-year programme aiming to improve the skill and insight of Hong Kong theatre practitioners and to consolidate a unique training and performance-research platform to enrich their craft, knowledge and perspectives. Programmes include Ten Waves gatherings, The Actor's Labs, International Masters Workshops, and Love in the Time of.
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2019
devised theatre based on Hong Kong literature to explore the world of local poet Leung Ping Kwan (Yasi).
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a play-reading and interactive commentary event, at the World Cultures Festival
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a butoh theatre work, from a gaze at the his-story of Ankoku Butoh, the sound of caws insinuates; at the International Butoh Festival of Japan in Tokyo.
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2018
a journey constructed and mapped out based on verbatim transcripts from dialogues with local Cheung Chau residents.
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2017
a meditation on the Myth of Oedipus.
a collective research and experimental journey into the worlds of Katsushika Hokusai, Paul Klee and Giorgio Morandi for artists from different background and disciplines.
a theatrical journey into the world of Sarah Kane and her blistering final play 4.48 Psychosis.
4.48 Psychosis (Beijing)
Invited to Beijing International Women Theatre Festival; Sarah Kane's modern classic that portrays a mind in acute despair, where fragments of pain and anger are interspersed with shafts of piercing humour.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Beijing)
Invited to Beijing International Women Theatre Festival; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2016
Sarah Kane's modern classic that portrays a mind in acute despair, where fragments of pain and anger are interspersed with shafts of piercing humour.
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Fish Heads & Tales - a tender war (Cabaret)
A cabaret songs and sketches night, a condensed and revived version of the original performance.
2015
by Samuel Beckett. Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet near a tree. They converse on various topics and reveal that they are waiting there for a man named Godot...
a new devised version, which aimed to stimulate debate about the value of Hong Kong’s building heritage internationally.
a staged reading of Sarah Kane’s modern classic that portrays a mind in acute despair, where fragments of pain and anger are interspersed with shafts of piercing humour.
one month workshop presentation based on Chekhov’s Three sisters; a 7-day workshop collaborated with Korea director Yang Jungung and stage designer Lee Yunsoo based on Alice in Wonderland.
2014
Touring to Canada’s the Gateway Theatre Pacific Festival and Macau; a new interpretation of leading HK playwright Paul Poon’s acclaimed play.
a one-of-a-kind performance-based collaborative training and research programme for experienced and emerging theatre professionals based on Chekhov’s short stories and his play The Seagull.
2013
inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play The House of Bernarda Alba.
2012
by Sarah Kane and in collaboration with Windmill Grass Theatre Company.
a new bilingual adaptation of Ibsen’s great play.
Touring to Guangdong; a new interpretation of leading HK playwright Paul Poon’s acclaimed play.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Shanghai)
One of the invited programmes at Shanghai 800 Show Festival; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2011
the award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza.
a new interpretation of leading HK playwright Paul Poon’s acclaimed play.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Colombia, Hong Kong re-run)
Opening performance at Manizales International Theatre Festival Colombia; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2010
an adaptation of the book of short stories by Italo Calvino.
by David Harrower.
The Will to Build (2010 Revival Version)
a highlight of the HKSAR cultural programme for Shanghai Expo.
one of the programmes for the Cao Yu Centenary Drama Festival.
2009
an adaptation of Cao Yu’s classic play, commissioned by the Macau Cultural Centre.
by Jean Anouilh.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Hong Kong re-run)
based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2008
devised from research of warriors, witches, and the stories and images from the Japanese film Kwaidan.
a multi-media verbatim project that examined the past, present and future of Hong Kong’s relentless cycle of construction and destruction, commissioned by the New Vision Arts Festival 2008.
2007
an award winning British play by David Harrower.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Macau)
Touring to macau; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2006
by Harold Pinter.
inspired by the life and short stories of Franz Kafka.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Shanghai, Singapore)
Touring to Shanghai and Singapore; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2005
based on the family histories of a group of Tuen Mun women.
inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett.
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Dance Me to the End of Love (Berlin, Hong Kong re-run)
Invited to Theatre Zerbrochene Fenster, Berlin; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2004
based on the writings of Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami and the notion of the cult of speed in modern society, commissioned by the New Vision Arts Festival 2004.
an adaptation of Gogol’s short story.
2003
devised with a group of Tuen Mun women. It explored their identity within their family and society.
based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2002
inspired by Jostein Gaardner’s novel.
after Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
2000
Fish Heads and Tales – a tender war
inspired by the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel.
an eclectic mix of children’s stories and folktales.
by Samuel Beckett.
1999
based on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
1998
inspired by the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky.
1997
by Charles Dickens.
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an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s famous story.
1996
based on Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
1995
Fish Heads and Tales – a tender war
inspired by the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel.