Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Poe’s Curse

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‘The expert puppeteers do their work amazingly. An exceptional staging.’

ABC, Spain

‘One of the best puppet shows for adults in the festival. Its horrifying spirit is contagious.’

The Times, UK

‘It seems as if Poe himself from the grave has directed this team. The uncertain, the spooky and enigmatic reach a higher dimension. Fantastic music. A masterful performance!’

El Mundo De Valladolid, Spain

Edgar Allan Poe’s spine-chilling world reimagined with puppets

Based on the stories of celebrated American writer of mysteries and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, this puppet thriller performed by leading puppeteers from Spain touches emotions from tenderness to fear.

Poor Edgar – dogged by misfortune, and guilty of loving the beautiful Annabel Lee – is thrown from one terror to another. Now beware of the cat with black magic powers, and the crazed, knife-wielding ape!

Awarded with the Critic’s Prize, Best Production Award at Lérida Puppet Theatre Festival, Spain and the Best Show Award at Pula International Festival (Croatia), the programme has performed across Europe.

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Infinita

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Playful life brings a distinctive vitality

‘Wordless and yet somehow so expressive, full of yearning and yet also filled with joy; this is a splendid and immensely skillful character comedy.’
– The Guardian, UK

‘As well as being very funny, these masked characters also have a real psychological depth.’
– The Stage, UK

The Audience Award at euro-scene Leipzig in 2012

Infinita is a comedy and physical/visual mosaic about the first and last moments of life. The story begins with a group of three young toddlers and ending in a retirement home. It is about a distinctive vitality, as the old men in their retirement home continue in the spirit of playfulness that defined their youth. The four fabulously masked starring without spoken words, with a very crafty shadows and enchanting music play a game of transience, of being born and of growing old, and a vigorous succession of scenes about the inevitable fate of the human being.

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André and Dorine

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‘Impressive and endearing…’

Total Theatre, UK

‘Filled with tenderness, nostalgia and love, it provoked deeply felt emotions. It was hard to keep back tears.’

El Mundo, Spain

‘…The piece is full of poetry, beautiful compositions, endearing moments and delightful comedy.’

Modernícolas Cultural Magazine, Spain

Time machine to rewind love

André and Dorine live just like many old couples do, gently decaying from routine and neglect. However, the coming of Alzheimer’s breaks the monotony, and so begins a fresh start in their relationship, a journey through memory. They need to remember who they were, so as not to forget who they are. Remember how they loved in order to keep loving each other. André and Dorine is a poetic piece of mask and mime theatre, exploring important themes with warmth and humour. It has been performed more than 400 times in 25 countries during the last seven years, such as the South America, the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia, not to mention its performances in the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase 2012 and 2014 in the Mainland, and in the Taipei Arts Festival 2013.

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Circus Funestus

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‘It is a beautiful and original story when puppets, music, and film play together in a fable over life and death.’

Politiken, Denmark

A battle between the good and the evil

Macabre, funny – It all happens in a circus

Circus Funestus is an apocalyptic love comedy. The story’s microscopic hero, Mr. Flea declares his love to the adorable elephant in the circus during the performance. This love declaration makes the evil villain, Mr. Whip, becomes mad of jealousy and conspires with a bunch of evil props to take over the circus. What was once a circus show is now a power struggle between the good and the evil, a fight for life and death….for saving the lover and the circus from a collapse. Puppets, movies, music and transformative effects create a comical and magical universe for the audience. The programme was premiered and staged at April Festival 2016 in Denmark and toured to Italy, France, Russia and Spain.

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