2022TAF：Glory Hole

“Every man has a hole waiting to be filled.”

 

Two young men, both gay but worlds apart. One lives in the not-so-distant past, the other in the not-so-distant future; one longs for love and sex but to no avail because of his fear of coming out, the other is a playboy but cannot get the man he desires. Each adrift in his longing until a ‘dick hole’ in a toilet of Taipei Main Station connects their worlds. Will this hole, which only language and body fluids can pass through, fill up the void in their hearts?

 

Glory Hole stems from last year’s playwriting project in the Festival, in which playwrights are invited to develop a work centered on Taipei Main Station. Playwright Lin Meng-Huan (Dazi) and director Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space) collaborate to tell a story of youth, longing and restlessness, revealing the reality of the times, of love lived and lost.

 

Text: Lin Meng-Huan(Dazi)

LIN Meng-Huan(Dazi) received a Master’s degree from the Department of Drama and Theater of National Taiwan University. 

Artist in Residence of National Taichung Theater, Taiwan

Lin’s works span across theater, children’s play, and television, and the artist has received awards including the Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards, Taipei Literature Award for the best script, and the Script Award of Taipei Children’s Art Festival, while his publications include On Meicun Road as well as children’s drama, poetry, short fiction, and children’s stories. As for stage shows, Lin has given birth to more than 20 works include A Dog’s House, ARK 47, and children’s play Jane’s Magic Dragon Egg; the screenwriter group of TV series The Teenage Psychic, which Lin was a member of, was shortlisted for best script for Mini-Series/TV Movie at the Golden Bell Awards.

 

Direction: Chen Yow-Ruu 

Artist and theater director, Chen uses video, installation, and live performances as creative tactics, exploring relations between man, space, body and sound. Chen frequently collaborates with artists from diverse realms and was nominated multiple times for the Taishin Arts Awards. Her recent directorial works include Moments (2021), Start Over: The Musical (2020), The Scenery of Little Light (NTT-TIFA 2020), Trade Trade Love (2019), Mother Singer (2018), Sleeplease (2016), Floaters Playground (2015, shortlisted for the 14th Taishin Arts Award). 

 

HER LAB SPACE

Initiated from multiple imaginations about space, HER LAB SPACE draws on historical memories and trivia of everyday life to conceive, experiment, and create interdisciplinary works that could not be clearly defined.