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Video recording of the Contemporary Legend Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest co-directed by Wu Hsing-kuo and the Hong Kong film-maker Tsui Hark. The production combines jingju, kunju, and...
Arts and current affairs review show presented by Kirsty Wark. In this special edition live from the Edinburgh Festival a report (c 8 mins) on Asian Shakespeare where Wu Hsing-Kuo performs a one-man version...
A video recording of the stage production of The Kingdom of Desire written and directed by Wu Hsing-Kuo. The production fuses Shakespeare’s play with the mise-en-scène of Beijing opera.
Video recording of Wu Hsing-kuo’s production of Kingdom of Desire for the Contemporary Legend Theatre Company. During the Eastern Chou Dynasty of the Warring State when feudalism was at its peak, the...
Feature film. An oedipal mystery melodrama informed by Hamlet. A young man named Guan Jin (TA Chung Wa) walks into a police station, offering information about a 10-year-old murder. He says that the victim...
Feature film based on The Comedy of Errors. No further information available (3/2008).
Feature film which borrows from the plots and themes of Hamlet and Macbeth. Set in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (A.D. 907-60), a time of royal instability in the north and warring states in...
Video recording of Ong Ken Sen’s Lear Dreaming. The story is set in the context of King Lear’s sleep of death, as he reminisces on the folly of his ways which led him to lose his kingdom to his daughter.
A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...
Feature film comedy. The Chans (led by Vincent) and the Wongs (led by Wu) are compelled to have their chicken rice stalls next to each other which intensifies their long-standing feud. Audrey, Vincent’s...
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