Hijinx from Wales has been invited to enrich the theatre experiences of people with different abilities by holding a series of newly developed online devising theatre workshops. Due to the pandemic, the Hijinx artistic team and local collaborator guide the participants through the devising process online in the creation of the final online Showcase.
Are you OK?
We get up, we get dressed, we brush our teeth, we eat our breakfast, we drink some water, we exercise, we drink again, we grow plants, we look out our window. If we are lucky, we go outside, we see people – at a distance. We laugh, we cry. We go to bed. Then we do it all over again. But are we OK?
A diverse group of performers from Hong Kong and Wales (UK) reflects on a world in lockdown, on how life has changed or stayed the same, on what and who we miss, on how we can help each other without being able to be with each other.
Are you OK? is a live performance, created on Zoom and presented via Zoom from the performers’ own homes.
Livestream Date: 6 March 2021 (Sat)
Livestream Time: 8pm (HKT) / 12pm (GMT)
Broadcast: Livestreaming on the “No Limits” website
Approximately 55 minutes
Performed in Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Making-Of – Devising in Lockdown
Making-of Director, Videographer and Editing
Bacon Cheng and Hui Chung-yin
He has devised and directed numerous productions for Hijinx, including Meet Fred, an international touring phenomenon, which has been translated into 11 languages and has toured Europe, the USA, South Korea and China. In 2019 Pettitt-Wade co-directed with
Kully Thiarai Mission Control, a Hijinx and National Theatre Wales collaboration with an inclusive cast of over 80, which was staged at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
He recently won Best Director at The Good The@tre Festival, an international festival of live online theatre, for Metamorphosis, which was created and presented on Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tic Ashfield (Hijinx)
Devising Performers
(Participants from Hong Kong)
YK, Wan Lai-yee, Kathy Ng, Sam Ng, Crystal Lee, Terry Chau, Philip Chow, Gethin Chow, Aranza Russell Terre, Theresa Leung, Sally Leung, Cheung Ling-long Angel, Karen Chan, Lemon Tsang, Leung Ho-hei, Yeung Sze-lok Llyr, Lai Yuk-lam, Clayton Lo, Harmony Timbre, Ben Kwong, Hsu Sing-chin
(Hijinx)
Lindsay Foster, Michelle McTernan, Richard Newnham, Owen Pugh, Sian Walker, Faye Wiggan
Production Team
(Hijinx)
- Production Manager
- Tom Ayres
- Senior Producer
- Ellis Wrightbrook
- Assistant Producer
- Carys Mol
- Technical Assistant
- Sam Jones
(Hong Kong)
- Artist Assistant
- Karen Ka and Dominic Lee
- Technical Assistants
- Yu Pui-ho
Making-of Director, Videographer and Editing
Bacon Cheng and Hui Chung-yin