Regina Foo is a theatre practitioner, cultural worker, performer and creative collaborator. Regina enjoys the process of theatre-making as a prism to experience the facets of life, to open minds and to indulge in the colourful spectrum of human emotions. She aspires to tap into the power of theatre as an intimate space where people can share stories to find strength, courage and hope.
Since graduating from ITI in 2017, she has focused on developing her practice to be shared with young children and adults with disabilities. She is also currently exploring projected play through puppetry and object manipulation.
Daisy Zhao Xiaoqing is a theatre practitioner, theatre arts facilitator, and founding member of Long Time No See Playback Theatre, which produces performances and conducts workshops to hold a space for real-life stories. She graduated from ITI in 2022.
Daisy hopes to make theatre more accessible to people, to seek meaning in the mundane, and to make intercultural theatre with an open and diversified approach.
Mel Peh is a theatre practitoner and mover with a background in Wushu and Sanda. Some of her show credits include The Critic and Brain Things (TNS' Devising with Actors and Playwrights), Traditional Failures (Kaleidoscope 2023 - Sigma Contemporary Dance residency), Tartuffe (W!ld Rice) and forum theatre piece Ladies' Night: Our Time to Talk (Rangbhumi Applied Theatre). In her free time, Mel enjoys reading, mixology, rap music and laughing at dad jokes.
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About Lock-up: When Theatre Encounters Pro-wrestling
Professional wrestling (pro wrestling) is a form of athletic theatre that combines mock combat with drama. The subculture of pro-wrestling produces its own conventions of audience-interaction and physical vocabularies (e.g. signature moves) that excite and retain audiences' emotional involvement. Through their residency, the artists will engage in research to distil the subculture's conventions then integrate its strategies into performance-making.
How does drama presented with pro-wrestling elements bring new life to its staging? Are there ways for a show to facilitate audience-involvement, organically or otherwise? Do such presentations of drama have the potential to open up more avenues of accessibility for audiences?
Lock-up: When Theatre Encounters Pro-wrestling — Open Sharing & Dialogue
27 Oct, Sun / 8 PM – 9:30 PM
