Projects
Piccadilly Revisited at the Hong Kong Arts Festival
A live music / film show about Hollywood's first Chinese film star, the legendary Anna May Wong (English VO narration, Chinese subtitles). British co-composer Ruth Chan collaborates with six of HK's brightest musicians / singers.
Presented on 25 - 26 February, 2011, at City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong.
Piccadilly Revisited on the Hong Kong Arts Festival website (English)
Piccadilly Revisited on the Hong Kong Arts Festival website (Chinese)
Piccadilly Revisited Chinese trailer
With freshly composed music, narration and video, up-and-coming composer Ruth Chan and director David Tse recreated, with a contemporary touch, the life behind the silver screen of Anna May Wong in Piccadilly Revisited. A century of dream through light and shadow (i.e. film), time seemed to have "blossomed" right on stage like the eternal flower of the orient.
Wen Wei Po (Full Chinese language review here)
With silent film, music and theatre, Piccadilly Revisited attempts to blend elements of modern theatre such as live vocals and narration with Anna May Wong's most well-known film work Piccadilly, creating a most delicate alchemical effect weaving the past and the present.
CforCulture (Full Chinese language review here)
This year's Hong Kong Arts Festival presented the "New Stage" series, featuring a production which brought the 1929 English silent film classic Piccadilly on stage with live music. The performing quality (texture) of Piccadilly Revisited was delightful - not only was the film enlivened by fresh editing, there was also an air of contemporary sensibility under the director's artistic touch.
Ta Kung Pao (Full Chinese language review here)
“Congratulations on the success of Piccadilly Revisited! This is certainly a show with legs, and I look forward to conversations about Macau and other possible future destinations.”
Tisa Ho, Executive Director of HKAF
“The score is a shimmering, evocative and jazzy East-West brew”
The Times
“[Piccadilly is] bold, beautifully crafted… one of the truly great films of the silent era”
Martin Scorsese
Photos below from Piccadilly Revisited @ HKAF - Meet the Artists talk, 25th Feb 2011, City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong.
Gallery of photos from performances and rehearsals
A live music / film show about Hollywood's first Chinese film star, the legendary Anna May Wong (English VO narration, Chinese subtitles). British co-composer Ruth Chan collaborates with six of HK's brightest musicians / singers.
Presented on 25 - 26 February, 2011, at City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong.
Piccadilly Revisited on the Hong Kong Arts Festival website (English)
Piccadilly Revisited on the Hong Kong Arts Festival website (Chinese)
Piccadilly Revisited Chinese trailer
With freshly composed music, narration and video, up-and-coming composer Ruth Chan and director David Tse recreated, with a contemporary touch, the life behind the silver screen of Anna May Wong in Piccadilly Revisited. A century of dream through light and shadow (i.e. film), time seemed to have "blossomed" right on stage like the eternal flower of the orient.
Wen Wei Po (Full Chinese language review here)
With silent film, music and theatre, Piccadilly Revisited attempts to blend elements of modern theatre such as live vocals and narration with Anna May Wong's most well-known film work Piccadilly, creating a most delicate alchemical effect weaving the past and the present.
CforCulture (Full Chinese language review here)
This year's Hong Kong Arts Festival presented the "New Stage" series, featuring a production which brought the 1929 English silent film classic Piccadilly on stage with live music. The performing quality (texture) of Piccadilly Revisited was delightful - not only was the film enlivened by fresh editing, there was also an air of contemporary sensibility under the director's artistic touch.
Ta Kung Pao (Full Chinese language review here)
“Congratulations on the success of Piccadilly Revisited! This is certainly a show with legs, and I look forward to conversations about Macau and other possible future destinations.”
Tisa Ho, Executive Director of HKAF
“The score is a shimmering, evocative and jazzy East-West brew”
The Times
“[Piccadilly is] bold, beautifully crafted… one of the truly great films of the silent era”
Martin Scorsese
Photos below from Piccadilly Revisited @ HKAF - Meet the Artists talk, 25th Feb 2011, City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong.
Gallery of photos from performances and rehearsals
