MONIQUE WILSON’S ONE-WOMAN SHOW AT HK FESTIVAL
Manila, Jan. 20, 2000 Singer and stage actress Monique Wilson is starting the millennium with a bang, staging New Voice Company’s hottest selling show, “Classical Monique,” at Hong Kong’s Star Alliance City Festival this month. The festival is one of Asia’s most prestigious theater festivals, showcasing international theater companies in music, dance and theatrical performances, art exhibitions, art and live performance workshops, as well as incorporating multi-media performances.
The New Voice Company is the first Filipino theater group to be invited to take part in the annual festival.
For the entire month of January in Hong Kong, the Star Alliance City Festival will present shows, exhibitions, workshops and talks by artists from Amsterdam, Bergen, Bochum, Chicago, Gent, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Honolulu, London, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Paris, Perth, San Francisco, Sheffield, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Zurich. Monique and the New Voice Company are the Philippines’ invited representatives.
“Classical Monique” is a one-woman dramatic and musical collage celebrating one woman’s journey, as she speaks of love, pain, joy and loss from young love to commitment, infidelity, separation, life and death. This was first created and performed by Monique for the British Council Arts Month in 1995. Classical Monique went on to have a hugely successful university tour.
The Philippine’s well-loved theater star, Monique Wilson dips into songs from the musicales Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance, Oliver, Nine, Goodbye Girl, and Aspects of Love, among many others. She also reads from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf and Christina Rosetti, and the plays of William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), George Bernard Shaw (St. Joan), Oscar Wilde (A Woman of No Importance) and Edna O’Brien (Virginia).
Classical Monique is directed by promising young theater director Andrew Vergara.
Hong Kong performances are on Jan. 21-25 at the La Cremeria Theater, Central Hong Kong.
A special Manila performance is set on March 15 at the Francisco Santiago Hall, Equitable-PCI Bank Bldg., Makati City at 8 p.m.
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