PRODUCTION

FACE A Eurasian Story

Written by Veronica Needa

Cast

Veronica Needa

Directed by Tang Shu Wing

Tang Shu-wing is one of Hong Kong’s most prominent stage directors, though he also regularly treads the boards as an actor. He’s the Dean of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, with Tang Shu-wing as artistic director, is a registered charity organization. It was formerly known as No Man’s Land, which was founded in 1996. No Man’s Land has created over 20 works. The more renowned works include: The Life and Death Trilogy – Three Women in Pearl River Delta (1997), Millennium Autopsy (1999) and My Murder Story (1999); Face (1998); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (2000); Between Life and Death (2003); Deathtrap (2002); Miss Margarida’s Way (2003); The Two or Three Ways of Making Love around Sunset (2003); The Man, The Chair and The Turtle: A Meditation on Culture (2004); Titus Andronicus (2008). In 2009, No Man’s Land was renamed as Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, whose mission is “To bring theatre works of the highest quality to the maximum number of audience”. As a centre of theatrical research and creations, the Studio aims at exercising its beliefs in physical theatre and minimalist aesthetics through artistic creations and research on performing arts, and thus bringing innovation to Hong Kong’s theatrical scene. The Studio has the vision to contribute to the rapidly developing local and international creative industry. The works of the Studio include Titus Andronicus 2.0 (2009), producer of The East Asian Games : Theatre series „Passion of Body Art” (2009) and Next Generations (2010, co-production with Drama Box, Singapore).
Works of No Man’s Land and Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio were presented in the New York Henson International Puppet Theatre Festival, San Francisco Ghost Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Macau Fringe Festival and Singapore Huayi Festival and have received a number of awards in the Hong Kong Drama Awards.