Chinatown Arts Space : Piccadilly Revisited at the ROH

Piccadilly Revisited at the ROH
A performance celebrating the life of Anna May Wong

Presented by Chinatown Arts Space

Piccadilly Revisited is a film and video, dance, music and drama performance inspired by the life and loves of Hollywood's first Chinese film star, Anna May Wong, and the classic British silent movie Piccadilly (1929) in which she played a starring role. The film will be shown in full as a backdrop to the performance.

Piccadilly Revisited features

Actress Calita Leong Rainford as Anna May Wong
Dancers Yuyu Rau & Quang Kien Van
Music composed & performed by Suki Mok & Ruth Chan
Choreography by Sin-Man Yue & Nguyen Ngoc Anh
Short film sequences by Shan Ng & O Zhang

Costumes by Jenny Ng Matthews
Set by Wai Yin Kwok
Lighting by Douglas Kuhrt
Written by Alice Lee & David Tse Ka-Shing
Directed by David Tse Ka-Shing, assisted by Uma Jackson

Wong was a celebrated actress who worked with Dietrich and Olivier, graced the pages of Vogue, Tatler and Vanity Fair, and the song These Foolish Things was written for her. Chinatown Arts Space is delighted to celebrate her achievements in this, her seminal film directed by E.A. Dupont, with a screen play written by Arnold Bennett.

‘Bold, beautifully crafted...one of the truly great films of the silent era’ - Martin Scorsese

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