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Director Tang Shu-wing, seen here at the Intercultural Theatre Institute's library, says reading is a mental exercise to keep his brain working.
PHOTO: GWYN LAU
Who: Tang Shu-wing, 66, is the artistic director of Hong Kong’s Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio and one of the special administrative region’s most influential theatre directors. In 2012, his production of Titus Andronicus was staged at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, marking the first time a Cantonese play was performed at the landmark theatre.
Tang’s play, a four-hander presentation of Shakespeare’s Othello with four graduating actor-students from Singapore’s Intercultural Theatre Institute, just concluded at Esplanade Theatre Studio on Nov 8. The actors from Singapore and India embodied nine characters using heightened language and mask work.
