Rock Rock Crafting Collective created a modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, which continues its classics series from its founding production of A Streetcar Named Desire. These two works depict psychological struggles and human dilemmas across eras. These lectures begin with an exploration of the female protagonist Hedda Gabler’s powerlessness and ultimate act of rebellion under the shackles of marriage and a patriarchal society. Drawing comparisons with A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois uses fantasies and lies to confront her harsh reality. The focus of these lectures will be on the use of directors’ interpretations, voice acting, and role play in these two works to search for destructive endings brought about by fate related to the times and how these resonate with contemporary audiences.
Lecturer｜Chen Yow-Ruu, Director
Chen Yow-Ruu’s works focus on local environments and cultural phenomena. She is adept at analyzing the intersections and relationships of sound, space, and body based on everyday experiences and transforming them into cross-media creative practices. Her works encompass theater, visual installations, sound, and video and she continues to collaborate with artists working in diverse disciplines. Her theater directing credits include Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, and A Curious Séance of K and Ponti, in addition to the musicals Into the Night, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Start Over: The Musical and the immersive theater experience Hypnocity.
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Lecturer｜Siraya Pai, Script Translator
Siraya Pai is an independent critic, translator, and theater writer. In recent years, her writing has focused on the use of music in theater, theater and cultural translation, and the integration of music and language. Her translated works include The Theatrical Public Sphere; A Choreographer’s Handbook; Empty Stages, Crowded Flats; Props; A Streetcar Named Desire; and the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She is a contributing writer to Performing Arts Redefined (PAR) and Taihsin’s Artalks and a critic for the Reviewing Performing Arts Taiwan platform.
