In the 1980s, the lifting of martial law led to a flourishing of the performing arts scene. On the left bank of the Tamsui River, inside an old Japanese-style wooden building, a group of students from a poetry society, under M's leadership, waged war against the national system through physical means. Along the stormy shores, within a dilapidated abandoned shipyard, a group of young people crawled through the mud, loudly proclaiming their right to name the world. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Marquez wrote, "The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them, it was necessary to point." M's small theater emerged and thrived from such a state, unabashedly colliding, using their bodies to constantly point towards those oppressed bodies and for those unable to be named, expressing anger and roaring. M's complex mind, with thoughts not tightly focused solely on creation and survival, emphasizes how life confronts a vast imaginary community.
Li Huan-hsiung
Li Huan-Hsiung is currently the Artistic Director of the Mr. Wing Theatre Company and also serves as a tenured Associate Professor and Program Director of the MFA Program of PERFORMING and CREATIVE ARTS at Tunghai University. He was a founding member of the Rive-Gauche Theatre Group and the Creative Society Theatre Group. In the 1980s, he pioneered poetic imagery theatre based on literary creation, making him a key figure in the second wave of the new theater movement. His work Kanshooryokoo won the 20th Taishin Arts Award Grand Prize.
Wang Chun-yen
Wang Chun-Yen holds a BA in Chinese Literature and an MA in Drama and Theatre from National Taiwan University, and receives his PhD in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. As an assistant professor of Performance and Cultural Studies at National Taiwan University, Wang teaches various courses, including “Cultural Translation,” “Interdisciplinary Humanities and Contemporary Taiwan,” and “Transnational Chinese Theater and Cultural Criticism.” He is the recipient of the S-An Cultural Foundation Aesthetic Essay Award, Taiwan Merits Scholarships, Fulbright Scholarship, etc. Wang’s research interest lies in contemporary Taiwanese theatre and cultural translation, and has long focused on the relationship between epistemology and aesthetics. In recent years, he concentrates on the interdisciplinary performance of global Chinese. Wang is a regular contributor for Performing Arts Reviews (https://pareviews.ncafroc.org.tw/) sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.
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