Blueprint Issue #7

Creative coincidences

Creative coincidences

"I had very little to work with in the beginning except the script. But then I read the programme booklet of the 1992 production, and watched the video of the 1988 production, and I saw that I have incorporated quite…
Ambitious freaks

Ambitious freaks

“What does it mean to be a straight man, and what does it mean to be a straight woman, and what roles do they play? And if we just turn those two genders on their heads, what would that show…
Learning to listen

Learning to listen

"In the silence between a speaker speaking and Fiky rapidly processing what was being said, I felt the listening presence that Charlene spoke of when discussing the role of the dramaturg. There was as much attention paid to that laborious…
Interview with Liu Xiaoyi

Interview with Liu Xiaoyi

"Sometime I feel that the exciting part of a journey is the uncertainty of the unknown and the impossible. Every time we choose the unknown, we win more independence, freedom and possibility. Therefore, I always choose a journey to unknown…