WE BUILT THIS CITY

Queen of rock Josie Ho, one of the stars of a multimedia ode to Hong Kong by experimental theatre company Zuni Icosahedron, gives Rachel Duffell a hint of things to come

hen local pianist KJ Wong and band Josie and the Uni Boys, led by queen of rock Josie Ho, come together in a Zuni Icosahedron production this month, it will be like nothing you’ve seen—or heard—before. Titled The Architecture of the City and directed by Zuni’s Mathias Woo, it’s a multimedia show combining live performance, images, music, staging and lighting to create a monument to Hong Kong, exploring its past and present. Against a set featuring bamboo scaffolds recalling architectural signatures of the city, the performers will deliver new arrangements of their music, turning them into pieces of Hong Kong and pieces of memory. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” says Josie. “We always just go with the songs straight up.” But when she and her band take to…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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