Fringe Mime & Movement Laboratory
Fringe Studio, Fringe Club
Tomorrow-Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 3pm Call it a meeting of the minds and the mimes. Hong Kong's Fringe Mime & Movement Laboratory (Mime Lab) has a history of collaborating with English mime directors but it has long sought to develop a distinctively East Asian mime form.
To this end, the group has recently turned to a South Korean mime professional to direct Why Not, its main programme in a show that premieres tomorrow (it also includes Danny Suen's 20-minute teaser production, The Flashings).
Yoon Jong-yeoun (above) got his start in mime at age 19 with the Mom Zit company. The director, now 44, later spent three years in London studying with Corinne Soum's Steven Wasson and another year working with the Theatre de L'Ange Fou. After returning to his home country, he established Theatre Momggol and also decided he wanted to learn more about his Asian neighbours.
'For the past 30 years, we have tried to find out what Korean mime is - the particularities that are Korean,' Yoon says. Over the course of working here on a show with an arguably archetypal Asian theme, he has a deeper understanding of his Korean influences.