Project organized by:
Hiroshi Ohashi (Tokyo), Tong Sze Hong (Hong Kong), Wang Mo Lin (Taipei) and Zhao Chuan (Shanghai)
Schedule:
8/17/2008 - 8/23/2008
workshop in Hong Kong
10/25/2008 - 11/24/2008
touring in four cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo
Participants:
Hiroshi Ohashi, Tong Sze Hong, Wang Mo Lin, Zhao Chuan，Akihiro Nakajim (Tokyo), Chen Cheng (Shanghai), Li Zhi Wen (Hong Kong) and Liu Mao Ying (Taipei).
Background
East Asian theatre artists have been collaborated loosely in many occasions and learning from each others in workshops, productions or just from facing the same social and economical changes in this globalize context. Since 2006, four theatre promoters and directors Hiroshi Ohashi, Tong Sze Hong, Wang Mo Lin and Zhao Chuan, from different generations, cities and nationalities, communicated in seeking a possibility of making a straightforward program for ourselves to get together, run workshops and make collaborative works. This proposal has been made as a result in early 2008.
Workshop in Hong Kong
Between 8/17/2008 to 8/23/2008, Hiroshi Ohashi, Tong Sze Hong, Wang Mo Lin and Zhao Chuan will gather with Clash Theater group in Hong Kong. We will spend a week on workshop to do research and exchange ideas of making a collaborative theatre work under four directors. We will work with Clash to study improvisation technique in performance facilitate by Tong Sze Hong.
Touring in Four cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo
According to the Hong Kong workshop, a further program will be worked out by four directors. The results from the workshop will be brought along when more theater workers joined from four cities in Shanghai in later October 2008. A piece of theatre work will be developed under the directors and performed in Shanghai. All directors and performers will travel together to Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo through out November. We will have more research and collaboration in these cities to modify and let the work grown with new experiences.
The Hong Kong Workshop in Research and collaborate with the experimental theatre workers from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo in 18-23 August 2008
Four directors Wang Moiln (Taipei), Hiroshi Ohashi (Tokyo), Tong Sze Hong (Hong Kong) and Zhao Chuan (Shanghai), with two actors from Tokyo and Hong Kong had been lived and worked together at Tong Sze Hong’s residence in Meiwou, Hong Kong for a week in the middle of August. During their stay, they made discussions and improvisation moves based on the text by Lu Xun, one of the most important writer and thinker from last century China. Directors tried to built the connections between Lu Xun’s text to their lives today, and find out a possible way to collaborate in their next step in this program. Through the weeklong preparation works, they all wished to make this collaboration into a theatre production in coming October and November and would have it’s primer in Shanghai.
