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Hsing Legend Youth Theatre: Wu Song—The Tiger Warrior
Wu Song - The Tiger Warrior - Hero or Outlaw?
Long before Luke Skywalker, another hero mastered the sabre, and fought imperial forces. His name? Wu Song – a martial arts master with deadly skills who can take on a tiger with bare hands. He is also one of Chinese literature’s best-known characters, and his story is told in Wu Song – The Tiger Warrior.
But not all heroes begin on the right side of the law…
Wu Song had to leave town aged 18, thinking he had accidentally killed a man. Wu Song – The Tiger Warrior picks up his story a year later, when he returns home to visit his ‘vertically challenged’ brother.
Intoxicated after accepting a drinking challenge, Wu Song becomes a local hero – and Chief Constable – after ‘taking care’ of a troublesome tiger. But one local resident likes him rather too much – his brother’s wife, Pan Jin Lain, who tries to seduce him.
Wu Song leaves town to avoid his sister-in-law’s advances, but returns just two months later to find his brother dead. Suspicious that the truth is being hidden, he conducts his own investigation – and then exacts justice.
Local corruption means Wu Song is soon framed for murders and marked to be killed, but his popularity means the court instead exiles him to a faraway prison. Yet he manages to escape with the help of a pair of inn keepers – despite the wife of one trying to turn him into stuffing for buns. As a convicted criminal, Wu Song has to continue as a fugitive, and eventually makes his way to Liangshan.
Forget what you thought you knew about heroes and about Chinese theatre: an intoxicating mix of Chinese opera, Kung Fu, street dance, acrobatics and mime, this skilful adaptation of one of Chinese literature’s greatest novels will transport you to the exciting world of the Song dynasty.
◎ Suggested Age no limited.
◎ In Mandarin with Chinese and English surtitles.
◎ For latercomers, please follow the instructions and arrangerments made by the organizers.
FOCA: Moss
“Moss”is a cross country and cross-genre collaboration between German dance theatre group Peculiar Man and Taiwanese contemporary circus company FOCA-Formosa Circus Art. As the final chapter of “Circus Interdisciplinary Trilogy” of FOCA, “Moss” combines techniques and aesthetics among different circus skills and dance theatre.
In addition to the highly accurate body techniques, this work focuses on the meaning behind the physicality as well. The skill is no longer just to provide a landscape of entertainment, but to focus on the exploration of human nature, and to peek into the hidden meaning of the characters.
Five performers meet in a concrete set: an abandoned house, covered in ivy and about to be sold. The performers climb onto it, move it, hide behind it. They fall from its top while paying no resistance to gravity. They run around it like the time fl ows back and onwards, while creating a desire for something that does not or probably cannot exist.in the surrealistic scene, they express how people go through memory, loss, happiness and sadness.
The house becomes a home of forgotten memories and dreams. In this unstable universe between reality and fiction, this work discloses a feeling of aliveness for the forgotten. Like moss, rootless, first plant on earth. It grows on any surface and still it stays ignored. The piece opens questions based on a sense of loss, absence, togetherness and loneliness.
“Moss” creates an atmosphere between illusion and reality by a complex yet undefined performance style. Juggling with dreams and soberness it tries to touch the core essence of human inner hesitation, helplessness and uneasiness.
◎ Suggested Age no limited.
◎ No language with no surtitles.
◎ For latercomers, please follow the instructions and arrangerments made by the organizers.
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Hsing Legend Youth Theatre: Wu Song—The Tiger Warrior
Source｜Tales from Water Margin by Shi Nai-an, Luo Guan-zhong
Producer｜LIN Hsiu-wei
Art Director｜Wu Hsing-kuo
Director｜Chu Po-cheng
Actor｜Lee Hsuan-lung, Huang Jo-lin, Yi Yuan, Chen Tz-yu, He Ping-jui
Music Production｜The Little Prince
Graphic Design｜Wan Zhi-zhong
Composers｜Wakin Chau
Lyrics｜Chang Ta-chuen
Set&Lighting Design｜Spring Kuo
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FOCA: Moss
Directors｜ Tien Tsai-wei, Jan Möllmer
Producer｜Lee Tsung-hsuan(permiere), Lin Chih-wei（2024）
Stage Designer｜Cheng Hsuan-Hsun
Lighting Designer｜Wang Tien-hung(premiere), Kuo Fang-yu(2024)
Stage Manager｜Kuo Fang-yu(premiere), Lee Yun-hsuan(2023)
Performers｜Chen Kuan-ting, Lo Yuan-yang, Lin Sheng-wei, Chao Wei-chen, Hsu Yueh-wei
