5/2001 Four Dogs and A Woman in HK Cultural Centre
A 40-year old woman is quietly waitng in a passenger lounge for her plane. Suddenly, an attendant drags in four black boxes, filling the room with excitement. In her panic, memories of the woman's previous love affairs with four men and their dogs-Master Beijing, Uncle Taipei, Prince Tokyo and Hongkonger flash through her mind. She is transported in the memories of her four affairs, and her encounter and involvement with the four dogs. The four boxes seem to be loaded with secrets, pointing to four different paths of life. With four dogs, four personalities and four distinctive "love" stories, the farce begins and ends in absurdity.
The story is about two young people falsely accused of murder by excitable villagers protest their innocence to officials who value order above truth and their comfort above their consciences. An intelligent magistrate discovers the real murderer and saves the two from the executioners' sword. Our adaptation adds a twist to the happy ending.
After a series of misfortunes, in Hong Kong a woman and her baby set out on a long sea journey in search of a distant aunt. All she has is a Tin Hau statue, a compass and her hopes and superstitions. Are they enough for the dangers that lie in the journey?
Let us confront our collective consciousness of the citystate at this moment, use the past to deal with the future. A language barrier-free performance of movement, music and comedy by the masters of visual and physical theatre, provoking laughter, tears and thoughts.
Broken, ripped and unwanted, the toys only destiny is to remain in a dirty garbage can, forever forgotten. A clown puppet with a special gift is given a chance to change that destiny, to find a new world for him and the other toys. As he journeys into the human world, dangers and misfortunes unfold. Will he be able to find a place to call their own? Join the clown on his special journey, that will bring tears and laughter, and spread tenderness and joy. Don't miss it!
The civil wars and genocide that racked Cambodia in the 1980's were unintended consequences of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Until 1970, Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk kept his country neutral while the United States based troops in Thailand and funded anticommunist guerillas in Laos. "Khmer Rouge" (Cambodian Reds) was Sihanouk's name for the Maoist insurgency led by Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), which had few followers in a country where 90% of peasants owned land. Though Vietnam and Cambodia were traditional enemies, Sihanouk turned a blind eye to North Vietnamese and Vietcong troop movements inside his borders.
In 1970, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger counseled President Nixon to bomb the enemy inside Cambodia. Between 1970 and 1973, when Congress halted the bombing, U.S. B-52's dropped 540,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. Sihanouk was deposed by his top General, Lon No. I; Cambodia entered the war on the U.S. side, and displaced peasants flocked to the Khmer Rouge. Our play begins just before the final Khmer Rouge victory in April, 1975, two weeks before the Communist victory in Vietnam.
A Journey into the World of Visual Wonders A light fast-paced narrative embraces the cinematic nature of Sign language, movement and mime. Theatre of the Silence lends its physicality and inventiveness to the play.
The Monkey's Paw A soldier friend of the family divulges a horrendous secret about the fortunes and evils of the monkey's paw he has unwittingly acquired while visiting India.
10/2005 My Red Dress (RE-Run) Hong Kong City Hall Theatre
Loung Ung emmigrated to the U.S. from Cambodia at age ten, in l980. “First They Killed My Father”, her best-selling childhood memoir of life and death under the Khmer Rouge, was published in 2000. She is presently National Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, a project of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
The civil wars and genocide that racked Cambodia in the l970s and 80's were unintended consequences of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Until 1970, Cambodia’s Prince Sihanouk kept his country neutral while "Khmer Rouge" led an insurgency which had few followers. Though Vietnam and Cambodia were traditional enemies, Sihanouk turned a blind eye to North Vietnamese and Vietcong troop movements inside his borders.
In 1970, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger counseled President Nixon to bomb the enemy inside Cambodia. Between l970 and l973, U.S. planes dropped 540,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. Sihanouk was deposed by his top General, Lon Nol; Cambodia entered the war on the U.S. side, and displaced peasants flocked to the Khmer Rouge. Our play begins just before the final Khmer Rouge victory in April, 1975, two weeks before the Communist victory in Vietnam.
Directed by Dan Chumley, former Artistic Director of San Francisco Mime Troupe, and adapted by Joan Holden, “My Red Dress” was premiered at 2004 Faust Festival. Before the second run in Hong Kong, “My Red Dress” will be staged at the Asian Women Theatre Conference, Shanghai, PRC and the 2005 Gwangju Asian Madang, South Korea.
10/2005 HOTEL HOLLYWOOD
Theatre Unlimited
An old sailor reaches agreement with his lover in Hotel Hollywood to meet, Late comes he has been waited for with hardship opposite party 25 years. Lived in this grotesque and gaudy hotel fills has come from all quarters resident, in this one day which met again to the lover, The hotel has transmitted the reconstruction news, actually this hotel and does all residents water transport meet can how?