Camaraderie

I do like the way we're emerging as a friendly/familial collective as well as an artistic alliance.



Don't we look sweet? Let's see some more from other days:

Torrance and Joavien in the green room.
Ka Fai giving us the new order of scenes.
Zul at the controls.


And Eng Tat at the controls.

Opening tomorrow! Debriefing now! Call-time at three! Yarrrrgh!

More WTFotography

Come see what it's all about!

My moustache brings all the boys to the bar

I'm supposed to act as the first Chinese historiographer Sima Qian in our next presentation. One of the orders from director Choy Ka Fai was that I would have to grow a beard.

I used to look like this:

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DAY 9

Now, I look like this:

DAY 10

I think the ultimate intention is for me to look like this:

But then I went and checked a picture of Sima Qian on Wikipedia:


Basket! Of course he was hairless! He was a eunuch!

Wah lau. Joavien Ng is chioh, man.

Or at least, the shots we got from the photo shoot are:





There's a video coming up!

First presentation over!

The feedback was pretty good - intrigued reactions from both younger audience members who remembered nothing from the 80s as well as older audience members who'd lived through the history (and in some cases, made it). Multimedia kids loved the way you could see Ka Fai and Zul operating the equipment throughout; tech guys liked the compressed space and the set of winding wired pipes that Torrance had created; others enjoyed the sheer noise and violence of Zul's sound art and my garbled monologue and Joavien's dance, and the desperation and craft of Pat's acting - I think we're a good team. Of course, some people grounded in conventional theatre weren't too thrilled with its lack of cohesion and direction of a specific message - but that's not what we were aiming for with a first presentation of ideas.

Looking forward to our next set of workshops in early October. In the meantime, here's a few shots of Joavien, me and Patricia (taken with PhotoBooth under awful lighting conditions):



And a shot of the audience during talkbacks:

Production shots

I've uploaded my photos of us labbing away on Flickr. Some samples:

In conference after the first workshop week.

Joavien and Pat prepping for video.

Rolling rolling...