Prelude of J.B. by Archibald MacLeish Production Photography

Prelude of J.B. by Archibald MacLeish Video Click Here. 

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Prelude of J.B. by Archibald Macleish Video

A short devised dance performance to set the circus scene as the opening of J.B. by Archibald Macleish. Performed November 2011

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Click here for production photographs of Esther as Nickles in J.B. by Archibald MacLeish:

Esther as Nickles

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Esther Mok as Wendy Darling

Esther Mok performing as Wendy Moira Angela Darling in Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. This was an ICS production performed in April 2012 at the Lu Kao Hwa Theater, Hong Kong. Esther had a lot of fun performing this role. It felt very natural to her to perform a role that yearns for adventure yet has a motherly spirit. Just like Wendy, she was growing up and becoming a lady at the time of this production. 

Photo credits: Aileen Ng, Chris Meyer, Paul Wilson

Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Esther Mok as Puck/ Robin Goodfellow

Esther Mok performing as Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This was an ICS production performed in April 2010 at the Lu Kao Hwa Theater, Hong Kong. Chinese culture was infused into this production of Midsummer Night's Dream to make it more relatable to the Chinese audience in Hong Kong. The production engaged heavily with Peking Opera and used its aesthetics as inspirations for the artistic and acting direction.  In Shakespeare's play, Puck is a clever, mischievous elf or spirit that personifies the trickster or the wise knave. In this production more specifically, Esther Mok plays as a cunning spirit that causes mishap with a hint of Chinese, Pekin Opera flavour.

'How now, spirit? Whither wander you?'

'The king doth keep his revels here tonight. Take heed the queen come not within his sight.'

'Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Called Robin Goodfellow.'

'My mistress with a monster is in love.'

Photo Credits: Paul Wilson 

J.B. by Archibald MacLeish

Esther Mok as Nickles

Esther Mok performing as Nickles in J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. This was an ICS production performed in November 2011 at the Lu Kao Hwa Theater, Hong Kong. J.B. is a modern retelling of the story of Job, a biblical figure presented as a devout and prosperous family man who was beset with horrendous disasters that took away his offspring, health and property. In MacLeish's play, Nickles, one of the main characters, is a popcorn vendor in the circus who assumes the role Satan. 

Mr Zuss and Nickles conversing

Nickles the popcorn vendor

Evil you call it! Look at those lips. They've tasted something bitter as a broth of blood and spat the sup out.

I heard upon his dry dung-heap that man cry out who cannot sleep

'Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.'

'Behold! I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him'

  

Nickles gives up and leaves angrily

Photo credits: Chris Meyer and Paul Wilson

Click here for the production's prelude dance video.