The Peony Pavilion
Adaptation of Tang Xianzu’s canonical sixteenth-century play.
Playwright · Screenwriter
Amy
Ng
Hong Kong writer based in London, working across theatre, screen, radio and adaptation.
About
Amy Ng’s plays include Shanghai Dolls at Kiln Theatre, Under the Umbrella at Belgrade Theatre and on UK tour, Acceptance at Hampstead Theatre, and Shangri-La at the Finborough Theatre.
Her adaptation of Miss Julie, transposed to 1948 Hong Kong, has been produced in Britain, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States. She also writes for television and radio, translates Chinese drama into English, and is the author of Nationalism and Political Liberty, published by Oxford University Press.
Current commissions
Genesis Commission
New writing commission.
Selected work
Theatre, adaptation, screen and radio
Shanghai Dolls
Jiang Qing (Madam Mao) morphs from a 1930s actress playing Nora in A Doll’s House into an architect of the Cultural Revolution.
Directed by Katie Posner.
Acceptance
A university committee weighs up an applicant’s credibility in the wake of her rape allegation.
Directed by Anna Ledwich.
Under the Umbrella
A ghost story about arranged marriages and the one-child policy in contemporary China.
Directed by Justine Themen.
Shangri-La
A satire on Western travellers’ fantasies of Tibet.
Directed by Charlotte Westenra.
Miss Julie
Strindberg transposed to 1948 Hong Kong, subsequently reworked for productions in Singapore and Hong Kong.
World premiere at Storyhouse, Chester; subsequently revived by Singapore Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong International Arts Festival and PICT Classic Theatre, Pittsburgh.
The Undeclared War
An espionage thriller set inside GCHQ, as Britain fights a hostile-state cyberwar while hunting a mole within its own intelligence services.
Co-writer, Series 2, Episode 3.
Tiger Girls
Drama about a paediatrician with a gambling addiction.
Directed by Shan Ng.
Wind and Dust
Adapted from Guan Hanqing’s thirteenth-century proto-feminist comedy Zhao Pan’er Rescues a Sister Through Seduction.
Elsewhere
Translations
Translations and surtitles for Hong Kong Arts Festival and IATC Hong Kong, including work by Candace Chong, Loong Man-Hong, Tang Chi-kin and Cheng Kwok-wai.
Publications
Plays published by Nick Hern Books and Methuen Drama / Bloomsbury. Nationalism and Political Liberty published by Oxford University Press.
Teaching & mentoring
University of Manchester, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ohio State University, Intermission Theatre and Rising Waves.
Contact
Representation
Alexandra Cory · Berlin Associates ↗