Haiqing Liang
Director/Producer/Facilitator
Spark Festival: Love Beyond Valentine, Tobacco Factory Theatre, 2023




​Photos by Craig Fuller and Sam Patching
Love Beyond Valentines was a vibrant festival of new work, featuring 43 artists across 16 unique acts at Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol. All the performances curated revolve around the theme of unconventional love and how that manifests in different forms. The festival was designed to support emerging artists by offering them a platform to present their work and curating an environment that encouraged feedback, artistic dialogue, and access to professional development opportunities. I was involved in the artist selection process, contributed to the overall festival design, and managed key logistics. Serving as a primary liaison between the artists and the theatre, I helped facilitate smooth collaboration and communication throughout the event.
React: Revealed , Tobacco Factory Theatre, 2022
As a trainee producer under the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Blueprint Scheme, I co-produced an audience engagement event known as REACT, which went hand in hand with their show Revealed. The event included pre-show performances and a post-show talk. I was the copywriter for the webpage marketing copy and the questions for the post-show talk. Revealed was a show about three generations of a family having conflicting political, social, and economic viewpoints against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement. My concept for the event was rooted in the tagline ‘can we listen if we are not heard?’, thereby emphasising on the importance of listening in inter-generational communication. This was further coupled with the aim of reflection that this is the result of varied life experiences within each generation and the urgent need to forge a healthy communication bridge across the generations. This was later transformed into the provocation of the night: Inheriting the Earth: Are we living in a different world to our elders? to sparks conversations of the night.

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InterAct double bill- Serendipity, Wickham Theatre, 2022
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​I co-produced a double bill event as part of the InterAct (University of Bristol theatre departmental society) committee. I chose the theme of Serendipity for the event as it was broad enough to provide applicants with a wide range of plays to choose from. Moreover, from an artistic point of view, because the event was curated after the pandemic where life was just beginning to return to normality, the theme was aimed to encapsulate the essence of discovering the joy of small events in our daily life even during difficult times. The final chosen pieces were an adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill. The serious tone of the former was balanced out with the more playful tone of the latter performance, allowing the audience to have a more holistic viewing experience of different genres and styles, yet leaving the night with a more light-hearted mood.