Imagine Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C3PO and Chewbacca all on stage, all performed by just one actor. In a fast-paced show Charles Ross brings to life all the characters from the original Star Wars trilogy live on stage.
Charlie buzzes like a lightsabre, growls like a wookie and whooshes like a millennium falcon as he vocalises all the sound effects, fights the battles and condenses the plots of all three original films into just one thrilling show.
To hear more about One Man Star Wars and to understand more about his motivations for performing, clink on the link below. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
Academy Award winning director Ang Lee's story set in the generation-defining Woodstock Music and Arts fair received lukewarm reviews from critics who despair about the not seeing Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix on screen.
The film instead depicts the story of Elliot Tiber, a dispirited, closeted, Jewish man who returns to his upstate New York home to help his uptight parents run their ramshackle motel. In doing so, he helps bring the storied counter-cultural juggernaut to fruition.
In this podcast, Film Editor Clarence Tsui speaks with Lee about Taking Woodstock and its critical reception. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
With her uplifting and self-proclaimed "cutesy" style, Australian-born singer Lenka claims her music has a special resonance with Asian fans. While on an Asian tour at the end of last month, Lenka played an intimate gig at Hitec and Hong Kong pop fans lapped it up.
Lenka’s work is known for themes of child-like innocence and purity of imagination. Her influences include the Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday but she admits that song writing lifts her out of the doldrums and puts a dimpled smile on her face.
In this podcast, listen to our interview with Lenka, where the 31-year-old actress-turned-pop princess talks about her philosophical outlook on life and what makes her happy. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
Martina Navratilova is a bona fide tennis legend, holding the all-time record for career singles and doubles titles. The Czech-born champion only retired from the game in 2006, just before her 50th birthday.
Now Martina is trying her hand at art. In 2000, she started collaborating with Slovak artist Juraj Kralik while she travelled the world competing in tennis tournaments. The artwork they have produced so far was made by simply hitting paint-covered tennis balls against canvas, a technique fittingly called "tennising."
In this interview, Martina discusses her tennis career and the evolution of her collaborations with Kralik. Also see Navratilova and Kralik in action as they produce a piece of art in Hong Kong. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
Annie Lennox is the first to admit that it can be funny how the world turns. In Hong Kong last week to promote her charity Sing, which raises money and awareness for HIV and Aids sufferers in Africa, the former Eurythmics performer told us her remarkable story – from growing up in Aberdeen to her meeting with Nelson Mandela.
But it could have all been so different. On December 8, 1980, when in Australia with her first band, the Tourists, she boarded a flight from Sydney to Perth and, after a brief stopover in Adelaide, the plane had only been in the air again for about 10 minutes when, suddenly, fuel started pouring off its wings.
But South China Morning Post entertainment writer Matthew Scott already knew that. As a 10-year-old, he and his brother were on the same flight. Sitting on a couch at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Annie Lennox stared at our reporter with her mouth open and blue eyes wide, and this is where the interview begins. AUDIO AFTER THE JUMP.
