This is a workshop conducted in collaboration with artists living in Taipei.
The director and artists will go out into the streets of Taipei to research the kinds of conversations people are having.
The research will cover not only conversations on the streets but also those taking place at home. In addition to conversations, we will also focus on people’s behaviors. We will transcribe the audio recordings and notes we bring back to create a script. Based on that script, we will create a play. In other words, it will be a play that documents contemporary Taipei.
Takuya Murakawa/Japan/Theatre Director
Theatre director and filmmaker. Employing documentary and fieldwork approaches, Murakawa’s practice traverses multiple fields from video/film to theatre and visual art. Born on the boundary between fiction and reality, his work not only questions current methods of artistic expression but also inquires into what really is in the real world. His work Zeitgeber (2011-), which recreated onstage the relationship between a caregiver and the cared for, has been performed internationally in Germany and Singapore among other countries. Recent works include Moonlight (2018), Pamilya (2020), Playing Work and working (2022-), and Tennis (stage version) (2025). In 2016, he visited Shanghai and Beijing as an East Asian Cultural Exchange Envoy for the Agency for Cultural Affairs. His recent work The Incident won a special prize at the 21st Aichi Arts Foundation Drama Award.
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