Through a long monologue, Daniel WANG’s 2020 work Wonderful narrates the final life journey of a father who dances with loneliness in the memories of his deceased wife. In 2024, WANG created a new piece titled The Moment, based on his mother’s 20-year battle with illness. Within the same narrative context as Wonderful, The Moment is written from a female perspective, weaving the parallel memories of the main characters: a mother, a daughter, and the daughter of a foreign caregiver. Although the two plays tell their stories separately, they are interwoven, and further explore issues of family bonds and life.
The Moment tells the story of three women who initially believed they were strangers. During a rare holiday, they unexpectedly book the same bed and breakfast, and they are forced to spend a long night together as a typhoon rages outside. Amid the storm, they delve into each other’s pasts and discover unexpected connections. Before the storm subsides, they inadvertently uncover the mysteries of their own lives. These three women, face their own life challenges while continually seeking companionship and understanding.
Artist Profile
Playwright & Director
Daniel WANG, Taiwan
Daniel WANG received his Bachelor of Arts and Master degrees from the Graduate Institute of Drama and Theatre at National Taiwan University and was an artist-in-residence at the National Taichung Theater. He is currently a full-time theater creator, specializing in playwriting, directing, and performing. His works, mostly original scripts set in a Taiwanese social context, reflect contemporary Taiwanese culture, humanities, psychological and social issues. His works have toured in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Macau, and many other cities. His piece Kuang Qi won four awards at the 2017 Bangkok Theatre Festival, including Best Movement-based Performance, Best Script, Best Direction, and Best Art Direction. His play The Unnamed was invited to the 2019 Wuzhen Theatre Festival. He is the author of Wonderful: The Collected Scripts of Daniel WANG.
In recent years, his works as playwright-director include Wonderful by M.O.V.E. Theatre, The Man, the Boy, and the Monkey King by Storyworks, and Singing All the Night, which he directed for the fifth anniversary program of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). His screenwriting works include the film After School. Playwriting productions include The Oracle Comes and Battle of Hakka in Pingting for Ming Hwa Yuan Arts & Cultural Group as well as The Eternal Coffee Time and A Date with Me for Performance Workshop.
Creative and Production Team
Artistic Director / FU Hong-Zheng
Director, Playwright / Daniel WANG
Performer / YAO Kun-chun, TSAI Yi-Ling, HSU Ying-Mei
Stage Design / Austin WANG
Lighting Design / DENG Chen-Wei
Costume Design / FAN Yu-Lin
Music Design, Live Performance / TAN Chi-Hsu
Sound Design / TSAI Hung-Lin
Photography / TANG Chien-Che
Graphic Design / HSU Ming-Wen
Director Assistant, Rehearsal Assistant / HSIEH Tai-Ting、HUANG Huei-Huei
Direction cooperation / HONG Yu-Ting, CHANG Chih-Chen, CHEN Shou-Rou, HUANG Cian-You, CHAO Ching-I
Stage Manager / DENG Ming-You
Stage Technical Coordination / CHEN Ren-Shuo
Assistant Stage Design / BAO Nian-Jie
Lighting Technical coordination / WU Yi-Ru
Sound Engineer / HSIEH Tai-Ting
Prop Execution / HUANG Huei-Huei
Production Consultant / LAN Hao-Jhih
Producer, Marketing Coordinator / LIN Yu-Wen
Marketing Executive / Jasmine Ong
Ticket Administrative / WEI Po-Hsuan
Company Manager / CHANG Nai-Hui
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M.O.V.E. Theatre
As an artistic platform to explore the aesthetics of physical theatre through movement, observation, and experiment, M.O.V.E. Theatre was established by the artistic director/director Fu Hong Zheng in the winter of 2006. It gathered artists from various disciplines, including theatre, music and dance. The practice of “Total Theater” is its artistic vision. The sharing of creative ideas is elaborated and transformed into the mutual gaze between performers and audiences. Its works feature a poetic theatrical vocabulary to reveal and to explore the spiritual landscape of modern people, while its subjects cover literature, myth, history, society, and etc., including interdisciplinary experimental projects with contemporary artists. Since its establishment, M.O.V.E. Theatre has presented more than forty theatre works and has been invited to perform at many international venues, showing impressive creativity and artistic achievement.
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