Le Grand RestaurantHK Theatre Association Ltd.

Synopsis

By Pierre Palmade
Stage adaptation by Emilie Guillot
It’s just a typical, ordinary evening at a 3 stars French restaurant, but the cast of characters on display here finds the terrain anything but easy to navigate. Hilarious French comedy with English simplified surtitles!

HK Theatre Association Limited

HKTA conducts an array of instructional training workshops in a wide variety of modern creative genres including: acting, dancing, vocal training and writing. Courses will be conducted in a variety of languages including English, and French to all, Adults, Teenagers and Kids.

The Association helps actors to gain control over their work, teaching them to rely on their own instincts, imagination and choices. Our scene study and improv classes produce confident actors who bring an original voice to every production.In fact, the most distinctive thing about one of our members is how different each one is. We train actors to speak in their own artistic voice—producing characters that are rich and layered. They become the artist they always wanted to be. Theater, television and film are all collaborative mediums, so an actor must work well with other actors, directors, casting directors and many more. Our technique trains them to do just that! That’s why we love to work with HKTA actors-students!

Artistic director resume

Emilie Guillot, born in Brittany, France, is known not only as an actress/performer but also as a drama director and producer of quite a wide number of live performances. Her debut was as a ballet dancer. She then graduated from ‘L’Ecole de Théâtre Bellevue’ with a diploma in ‘Corporal techniques and improvisation’. She spent years practicing on stage and in front of the camera, with well-known acting coaches, directors, and producers such as Christian Lucciani, Sylvie Boutley, Frédérique Farina, Georges Bécot, Jean-René Lemoine, Daniel Cling, Steven Soderbergh,
Stanley J. Orzel.

Finally she graduated with a National Diploma in Performing Arts and in Drama Directing, from the renowned French Drama School ‘Le Cours Florent’, full of contentment and confidence. In July 2003, she arrived in Hong Kong and started a drama production company (Mon Café-Theatre Ltd) with which she has developped the concept of Café-theatre in HK. Emilie has also been seen as a performer and actress in ‘Isabeau’, ‘The Killing of Sister Georges’, ‘Sandman’, ‘California Suite’, ‘The Sneeze’, ‘God of Carnage’, ‘Lumina –webseries’, ‘Push’ feature film, ‘A little conversation – independent film’, ‘Boxed in’ with best film, best acting, best directing awards, ‘Chinese Zodiac 2012’, Jacky Chan production, and ‘Far away Eyes’ – feature film.

In addition to this, she is a certified Cinema Director and Line Producer from Hollywood Film Institute and HK International Film School. She is now the Artistic Director of ‘HK Theatre Association Ltd’ with which she coaches acting to adults and young kids.