2023 TCAF: 《Dear Deer》

It is believed that human imagination can render people more creative, so people have started creating artificial magic. 

Teacher has a father who is a doctor. He doesn’t fix headaches, nor toothaches. What he fixes is one’s temper, and also clocks. He keeps doing it. Teacher’s good friend, Wei-wei, once said that he would go afar. One day, teacher’s student also said that he wanted to go somewhere far away, to look for a Black Granny. Who exactly is Black Granny? 

The theme of Dear Deer centers around parent-child relationship and the mutual understanding between them. The whole play is built into an interactive moving theater, allowing each and every child that ever dreams of going afar and the adults that once were children to create the wonders of surprising encounters.

Performing Group

CO-COISM x Wu Yen-Ting

Dear Deer of Small Friends, Bid Friends series, written by playwright Wu Yen-Ting, is the winner of the First Prize of Script Writing for Young Audience-Competition. This time, Wu Yen-Ting collaborates with CO-COISM’s director, Hung Chien-Han and creates a moving performing space together, inviting parents and children alike to enjoy the play. 
 
CO-COISM is a multi-creator collective. The company was founded in 2016 by three emerging theater directors, Hung Chien-Han, Chang Kang-Hua, and Huang Ding-Yun. They not only make theater performances individually, but also collectively. They prefer to work in cooperative/devised way then perusing for horizontal deliberation results. Recent year,they aim at Live Exhibition, Responding Creation, Activism Project and Immersive Project. They are also willing to collaborate with different artists who have different backgrounds to see more possibilities of art and culture.