TSW Theatre
The 2nd HKISF: Shakespeare Dance Theatre
URBTIX
DAMAI

 Planting Shakespeare + We are (not) Romeo and Juliet (Hong Kong)


Planting Shakespeare (Guangzhou)

If emotions could photosynthesise, how might the body grow in Shakespeare's soil?


Planting Shakespeare treats text as "fertile soil", from Hamlet's melancholy to Richard III's ambition, these effects are transmuted into vegetal strategies of rooting and phototropism.By evolving the dancer into a "Plant-Body", this ecological experiment dismantles anthropocentrism. Guided by mathematical sketches of emotion, the work captures trajectories of growth and decay, offering a radical re-reading of classics through multi-species perception and somatic critique.


Choreographers: Wu Hui, Guo Rui

Dramaturge: Ho I-Fan

Dancers: Da Yueqi, Liu Qinqyu, Li Hualong, Su Zihao

Set Designer: GuoGuoHuiHui

Lighting Designer: Low Shee How

Costume Designer: Wu Hui

Music Composer: Huang Junhao

Audio Sampler: Wen Danni

Producer: Zhu Ningdan

Presented by: Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio


We are (not) Romeo and Juliet (Hong Kong)

Love is one of humanity’s most enduring emotions - but what is it that binds two people so tightly?

Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet, this performance begins with the original’s vision of a fate-scorched love - fierce, absolute, and irrevocable - and turns its gaze toward the questions it leaves behind: what we believe love is worth, and how it might exist. 

Deconstructing the classic text, the work reimagines it through physical language and stage storytelling, focusing on the push and pull between two people - love, encounter, survival, and learning how to be with one another. Looking back on the meaning of every meeting and every moment of staying, it excavates, layer by layer, the weight of “love” suspended between the instant and the eternal.

Choreographers and Performers: Terry Tsang, Bobo Lai
Composer and Sound Designer: Leung Po-wing
Set and Costume Designer: Jeff Mui
Lighting Designers: Ho Fu-lung, Paul Wong Tsz-chung
Producer: Jaye Chan

Presented by: Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio



The 2nd Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival 

Shakespeare Dance Theatre

12-14 June 2026 (Fri-Sun) 8PM

13-14 June 2026 (Sat-Sun) 3PMM

The Room, Freespace, WestK | $350 (General admission)


"The 2nd HK International Shakespeare Festival" Package Discount (only available at URBTIX)

Each purchase of standard tickets for 2 different programmes (10% off)

Each purchase of standard tickets for 3 different programmes (15% off)

Each purchase of standard tickets for 4 or more different programmes (20% off)


"The 2nd Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival" Package Discount is only applicable to the following programmes:


Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre

- Othello by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio (5-10 June 2026)


WestK Freespace The Box

- Hamlet by Tibet Autonomous Region Drama Troupe (China) (12-13 June 2026)

- Hamlet by "Marin Sorescu" National Theatre of Craiova (Romania) (16-17 June 2026)

- Twelfth Night by National Theater Company of Korea (20-21 June 2026)


WestK Freespace The Room

- Shakespeare Dance Theatre (12-14 June 2026)


WestK Xiqu Centre Studio 1

- MACBETH solo (The UK) (10-11 June 2026)

- Ophelia. An Object Study (Poland) (13-14 June 2026)

- The Rape of Lucrece (The UK) (16-17 June 2026)

- Titus Andronicus 2.0 by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio (20-21 June 2026)


Local Full-time Students / Senior Citizens Aged 60 or Above / People with Disabilities & the Minder* / Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Recipients (50% off, with limited quota)


Principal Hotel Sponsor

Mondrian Hong Kong


Media Partners

art-mate.net

Star Ferry


Technical Partner

WestK Performing Arts


House rules

- General admission.

- Suitable for ages 12 or above.

- Programme duration is about 1 hour and 45 minutes with an intermission. 

- Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable break.

- The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artist(s) should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary.

- In case of any dispute, the presenter reserves the right of final decision.


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Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio is financially supported by the Art Development Matching Grants Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The content of these programmes does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.


 

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