Mr. Wing Theatre Company ╳ Yat Po Singers Pica pica Choose

A group of recently graduated Pica pica decides to take a chance on finding a good job. They are to audition for the engineer of the Qixi Pica pica Bridge. Can they pass a series of voice, appearance and artistry tests and claim their dream job? What will happen to them if they fail?

The Taiwan-based Mr. Wing Theatre Company possesses a strong foundation in poetry and literature, while the Hong Kong-based Yat Po Singers are known for their physical and textual style and refined, yet lively, performances. These two performing groups teamed up to create this production. Through the sounds and rhythms unique to Mandarin, a lively word game develops. This is an experiment in the possibilities of the human voice.   

LI Huan-hsiung, Artistic Director 

A founding member of Rive-Gauche Theatre Group and Creative Society, LI Huan-hsiung is one of Taiwan’s most influential contemporary theater artists. He is currently the artistic director of Mr. Wing Theatre Company and Expert Associate Professor in the Master’s Program of Performing and Creative Arts at Tunghai University. Inspired by Taiwan’s experimental theater movement of the 80s and with a strong literary foundation, he established the Rive-Gauche Theatre Group, which focused on poetry-related imagery. Since the 90s, he has produced and directed large-scale multi-disciplinary and multimedia theater productions. His more recent works include Puccini’s Turandot (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2015) and Jimmy’s The Rainbow of Time – a musical. 

Yuri NG, Stage Director and Choreographer

Yuri NG is the Co-Artistic Director of Yat Po Singers, an a cappella theater company founded in 2012. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate from 2011 to 2013. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2012, Award for Best Artist (Dance) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2013. In 1998, he was awarded Prix d’ Auteur at the 6th edition of the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-St-Denis (Bagnolet) with his choreography of Boy Story.

His recent works include Requiem HK (re-run) in collaboration with City Contemporary Dance Company (2018), and Our Immortal Cantata (re-run, 2016) for Yat Po Singers, Boy Story for Unlock Dancing Plaza at Cloud Gate Theater (2017), A Soldier’s Story (2016) for Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Awakening (2011), What is Success? (2013) and Art School Musical (2014) for Edward Lam Dance Theatre, to name a few.

Mr. Wing Theatre Company 

In 2007, Mr. Wing Theatre Company was founded by LI Huan-hsiung, a previous core member of River-Gauche Theatre Group and Creative Society. With this new association and name, LI expects to create a platform without limitation of scale that focuses on both mastery of performance skills and style.

Since its beginning, the belief in the subjectivity of theater creation has been upheld by the members of this theater company. Its goals are to continuously and actively engage in new fields of theater development and production and to endeavor to seek opportunities for international exchanges to produce dazzling performances based on collaborations with professionals in different genres, as well as by writing works and exploring various cultures.

Yat Po Singers

Yat Po Singers is Hong Kong’s first professional a cappella choral theater company. The founding Co-Artistic Directors are Patrick CHIU, NG Cheuk-yin and Yuri NG. The company focuses on producing and developing original works to promote a cappella art and demonstrate the innovative interaction of music and theater. Its first a cappella theatre production Rock Hard received the CASH Golden Sail Music Award from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong in 2009. In 2015, the company was recognized with an Award for Arts Promotion from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Another of its a cappella theatre works, Our Immortal Cantata (re-run), won Best Original Music & Lyrics, Best Sound Design and Best Production of the Year at the 26th Hong Kong Drama Awards in 2017.

Artistic Director / LI Huan-hsiung
Stage Director and Choreographer / Yuri NG (HK)
Playwrighting and Lyrics / Chris SHUM (HK)
Music Director / CHEN Chien-chi, Yin NG (HK)
Set Design / CHENG Hsuan-hsun
Lighting Design / LIN Li-chun
Costume Design / LIN Pei-jun
Assistant Director / TSUEI Tai-hao, WU Zi-jing
Cast / YANG Qi-yin, LI Man, PAN Chih-yuan, CHIU Li-shu, LIU Yao-xuan, WU Jing-yi;
          Raoul CHAN, Ronald TSANG, Jordan CHENG, Rick LAU, Anna LO (HK)
Producer / CHANG Bao-huey, Kathleen NG (HK)
Production / Mr. Wing Theatre Company
Performance / Mr. Wing Theatre Company, Yat Po Singers (HK)