Chronology
Faith Healer (re-run)
Considered to be Irish playwright Brian Friel’s masterpiece, unveiling a pool of fractured and contradictory memories.
Online Screening "The Making of...VOYAGES"
Follows the Tuen Mun women as they reunite after twenty years, transforming their personal journeys into a new community theatre creation.
Begin in 2014 at Cattlemen Depot’s N2 Space, has evolved over the years into a performance created and led by its participants following six seasons of gatherings in Sai Kung.
2026
Through a blend of poetry and magical realism, Must I Cry depicts a past that is present, delving into our memories amidst an ever-evolving cityscape.
After two decades, a group of women from Tuen Mun to stage who staged “On the City Train She Stand” and “Gateway” reunite on stage, bringing their memories and new insights to share their life journeys.
Through a blend of poetry and magical realism, Must I Cry depicts a past that is present, delving into our memories amidst an ever-evolving cityscape.
2025
Must I Cry (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
Through a blend of poetry and magical realism, Must I Cry depicts a past that is present, delving into our memories amidst an ever-evolving cityscape.
Considered to be Irish playwright Brian Friel’s masterpiece, unveiling a pool of fractured and contradictory memories.
SPARK 2024-25 (The Actors' Lab Series / Ten Waves Gatherings / International Master Workshops)
A 2-year program SPARK 24-25, 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.
2024
Chekhov’s masterpiece explores a world of longing and desire yet without the ability to act as time slowly slips away.
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.
2023
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.
2022
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.
2021
A 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.
2020
Devised theatre based on Hong Kong literature to explore the world of local poet Leung Ping Kwan (Yasi).
A play-reading and interactive commentary event, at the World Cultures Festival
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.
2019
A journey constructed and mapped out based on verbatim transcripts from dialogues with local Cheung Chau residents.
2018
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.
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.
The coming of summer with an evening of songs, music and poetry that celebrates the work of Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Astor Piazolla and others.
Created by Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights, this thought-provoking modern drama tells the tale of Molly’s emotional journey.
2017
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.
Fish Heads & Tales - a tender war (Cabaret)
A cabaret songs and sketches night, a condensed and revived version of the original performance.
New Plays Series is a scheme to nourish emerging local playwrights that explores writing for the and its relationship to acting and directing.
2016
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.
The Overcoat School Tour (2015)
In Autumn 2015 the Company toured a new production of The Overcoat in schools, community centers and outdoor spaces in Hong Kong.
2015
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.
A school tour included excerpts from Hedda Gabler and the introduction of Ibsen and his plays in the context of modernist theatre.
2014
Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play The House of Bernarda Alba.
With an evening of songs, music and poetry that celebrates the works of Italo Calvino, Federico Garcia Lorca, Augustin Barrios, Yuquijiro Yocoh, Jacques Brel, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Joseph Koo, The Beatles, The Proclaimers...
2013
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.
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.
A short performance piece that fuses dance, theatre and live music, as one of the performances in A 7-D multi-place performance.
2012
The award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza.
A new interpretation of leading HK playwright Paul Poon’s acclaimed play.
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.
Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play The House of Bernarda Alba.
2011
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.
2010
An adaptation of Cao Yu’s classic play, commissioned by the Macau Cultural Centre.
By Jean Anouilh.
Dance Me to the End of Love (Hong Kong re-run)
Based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2009
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.
2008
An award winning British play by David Harrower.
Macau Devising Theatre Workshop 2007
Touring to macau; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
The Overcoat (Drama Centre, Singapore (Re-run) & Hong Kong Fringe Club (Re-run) )
The company revived the production in Hong Kong with a new cast made up of local actors.
Dance Me to the End of Love (Macao)
Touring to Macao; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
2007
By Harold Pinter.
Inspired by the life and short stories of Franz Kafka.
Dance Me to the End of Love (Hong Kong Shanghai, Singapore)
Touring to Shanghai and Singapore; based on Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and Leonard Cohen’s songs.
Documentary VCD made by local filmmaker Amos Lee launched in Hong Kong. The documentary follows the creative process (from the first rehearsals through to the final performance) of Gateways.
2006
Based on the family histories of a group of Tuen Mun women.
Inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett.
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.
Bonni collaborated with Hong Kong actor/director Lee Chun-chow on a theatre piece based on the life of the famous escape artist Harry Houdini.
2005
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.
The Overcoat (Hong Kong Fringe Club (Re-run) & Sha Tin Town Hall (Re-run) )
an adaptation of Gogol’s short story.
In the spring and summer of 2004, Bonni and Sean developed a youth project that was different from their usual community outreach work.
A version for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that was visual and physical capturing the fierce energy and dramatic tension within Lorca's tragedy.
Bonni was invited to collaborate with artists from Korea and Japan on a production that explored Chekhov's famous play through a Contemporary Asian Woman's Perspective.
Celebrated the poets and their poems including W B. Yeats, Raymond Carver, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, e e. Cummings and Robert Bums.
2004
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.
Celebrated the poets and their poems including W B. Yeats, Raymond Carver, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, e e. Cummings and Robert Bums.
Each production involved a different group from the community Waltzer Mathilda (Children), Having a good time (woman), Multiple Division (teenagers) and Tall Tales (adults from varied cultural backgrounds) and were devised using material from the lives of the participants as well as stories and fables.
2003
Inspired by Jostein Gaardner’s novel.
After Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
In 2002 Theatre du Pif were invited to devise and direct a community production that explored cultural diversity in Scotland.
2002
Cabaret Evenings
A series of workshops were launched that involved a theatre production and workshops for various audience groups.
2001
Fish Heads and Tales – a tender war (Macao & Hong Kong)
Inspired by the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel.
An eclectic mix of children’s stories and folktales.
By Samuel Beckett.
Metamorphosis (new adaptation)
The story of a young salesman Gregar Samsa who toils away day by day so as to provide for his family until one morning he finds himself transformed into a giant insect.
2000
based on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Theatre du Pif started a six-month residential project that was held at the Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre and involved drama workshops theatre classes performances, a video project and a photographic exhibition.
1999
Inspired by the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky.
Adapting Austrian playwright Peter Handke's avant-garde, dialogue-free text (Das Mündel will Vormund sein).
Each production involved a different group from the community Waltzer Mathilda (Children), Having a good time (woman), Multiple Division (teenagers) and Tall Tales (adults from varied cultural backgrounds) and were devised using material from the lives of the participants as well as stories and fables.
1998
By Charles Dickens.
An adaptation of Franz Kafka’s famous story.
Each production involved a different group from the community Waltzer Mathilda (Children), Having a good time (woman), Multiple Division (teenagers) and Tall Tales (adults from varied cultural backgrounds) and were devised using material from the lives of the participants as well as stories and fables.
1997
Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
Fish Heads and Tales – a tender war (Hong Kong re-run)
Inspired by the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel.
Each production involved a different group from the community Waltzer Mathilda (Children), Having a good time (woman), Multiple Division (teenagers) and Tall Tales (adults from varied cultural backgrounds) and were devised using material from the lives of the participants as well as stories and fables.
1996
Fish Heads and Tales – a tender war
Inspired by the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel.
1995