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Natasha Huang was the principal make-up artist for the pop opera Monkey: Journey to the West, written by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cartoon artist Jamie Hewlett and directed by Chen Shi-zheng. The sell-out show, based on the Chinese legend, has just finished a run at London's O2 arena.

'It's a brilliant collaboration of east and west,' Huang says of the production, which, with a Chinese cast, is a mix of music - using western and eastern instruments - animation, visual effects and martial arts.

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