Kim Pearce, Director.
Theatre Work
Selected projects. Full CV available on request.
Director
'PigsPigsPigs'
a musiktheater piece by Bastard Assignments.
Commissioned by Borealis – a festival for experimental music (NO), Spor Festival (DK) and Wigmore Hall (UK).
Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear, four composer-performers making experimental music.
One of the most exciting forces in contemporary music” – Financial Times
“Bizarre, compelling and truly unexpected” – Frieze
They work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice encompassing concert music, movement work, online pieces, text, video and improvisation. Kim joined the group for their first foray into staging a full play.
In PigsPigsPigs, an English farming family grapple with questions of inheritance, power and visions of the future as a sinister force overtakes them, manifesting transformation and change…
Touring through 2025 and 2026.
Director
'May 35th'
By Candace Chong Mui Ngam
Translated by S.Y.Li
June Fourth Stage Company with the support of Amnesty International
The English language premier of a multi award winning play from Hong Kong.
***** A Young(ish) Perspective *****AngelaBothSidesNow **** The Reviews Hub **** North West End **** All That Dazzles ****Broadway World ****Matinee Mouse.
“This ambitious and gut-wrenching play does not shy away from the pain and horror experienced by those impacted by this history. Director Kim Pearce does a phenomenal job cultivating an experience that leaves one feeling that these events are closer to home than Western audiences might think.”
A Young(ish) Perspective
Director of Acting
'Peaky Blinders: The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby '
Directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, written by Steven Knight
Kim worked with the company of Ballet Rambert to create characterisation and acted moments in this astonishing translation of the iconic TV show to dance.
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Producer and Associate Director
'A Bouffon Play About Hong Kong'
Written and directed by Isabella Leung.
With Papergang Theatre, Kim was delighted to realise her colleague Isabella Leung's ambitions in bringing her Women's Prize For Playwrighting finalist play to the stage for sell out audiences at Manchester's HOME.
Director
'Dreamers'
With Papergang Theatre. Where do you start when you have lost everything? A devised piece by anonymous artists reflecting on the aftermath of protest and pandemic. Technologically innovative, the audience began the performance at home interacting with a bot on their phones and finished in holding communal vigil in the theatre.
Director
'Freedom Hi'
With Papergang Theatre. A compilation of new writing and performance art by UK based Hong Kong and British East Asian artists. Drawing both on stories from the front line of protest and the diasporic experience of watching traumatic events unfold through digital platforms.
"Freedom Hi is wild and fierce, urgent and sorrowful." - Lynne Gardner, Stage Door.
VAULT FESTIVAL SHOW OF THE WEEK AWARD, WEEK 7
Awarded to exceptional productions from the Theatre & Performance programme
Event Curator and Director
'T30'
With Papergang Theatre. A 5 hour durational performance event that created a communal space to mark the 30th anniversary and share memories of the 1989 Democracy Movement.
Director
'Forgotten 遗忘'
Written by Daniel York Loh.
With New Earth Theatre.
The first theatrical production to tell the little known story of the 140 000 strong Chinese Labour Corps who worked, and died, for the Allies behind the front lines during World War One.
'Pearce’s direction is empathetic, emphasising and rooting the interpersonal relationships at the heart of the piece' Ava Wong Davies, the Stage.
Director
Unearthed
Written by Alys Metcalf.
With Folio Theatre in association with the Brewhouse and the Carers Trust.
Set in Somerset, a play about two young adults struggling with the implications of caring for their father.
The production enjoyed two successful tours of London and the South West.
'the play represented young adult carers’ stories in a really honest way, while bringing lightness and humour to a serious subject matter.'
Listed by the Guardian as one of their readers' favourite shows of the year.
Director
Invisible Harmony
With writing and performance by Daniel York Loh, Julia Cheng and Exni Chang.
Film by April Lin.
A cry for freedom, an act of resistance. A merging of poetry, film, dance and spoken word at the Southbank Centre.
Director
Love Steals Us From Lonliness
Written by Gary Owen
With Chippy Lane Theatre.
A revival of an earlier work by one Wales' foremost playwrights. Between January 2007 and December 2008 there were a spate of suicides amongst young people in the small Welsh town of Bridgend, the final number was calculated at 28. The media have told us their Bridgend story, but what will a writer who spent his own teenage years there have to say?
'Pearce doesn’t put a step wrong in bringing Owen’s masterpiece to life.'
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Associate Director
Theatre On the Fly
Kim was part of the team of directors who worked with Turner prize winning architectural collective Assemble on creating Theatre On The Fly, a temporary fly tower performance structure built from reclaimed materials. Marking the 50th anniversary of Chichester Festival Theatre. Kim was responsible for a wide range of roles from organising the community volunteers who particapted in the construction phase to programming and directing a three mothn programme of readings, events and silent discos in the space.
