- Price: 300, 500, 800
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 90 minutes without intermission.
Performed in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Quanzhou dialect with Mandarin and English surtitles.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
Gang-a Tsui Theater - Passage to Lo-Jin
"L'histoire de Hsu Ching est aussi troublante que captivante. Initialement entraîné par l'exigence de sa passion pour l'art, Hsu Ching se découvre peu à peu asservi aux contraintes genrées d'un sexe qui n'est pas le sien...Yu-Dien Chen choisit de concilier les besoins dramaturgiques de l'opéra classique chinois avec une relative sobriété scénographique. Un texte projeté fait office de voix de conteur muette. Au fond, quatre musiciennes, armées d'instruments traditionnels, accompagnent le déroulé de la fable et le chant des acteurs...
L'œuvre multiplie les couches de sens en associant à la question du genre, de la colonisation taïwanaise et des déchirures identitaires qu’elle causa au xixe siècle.'——IO Gazette, n°102
Combined with Nanguan, the experimental play Passage to Lo-Jin is adapted from the work of Shih Shu-Ching, the winner of National Awards of Art, whose first novel of Taiwan Trilogy. The story is about the life of Hsu Ching who visited Taiwan thrice. As a Liyuan Xi performer, he grows his own identity toward the gender and the land by performing as a female character in Tale of the Lychee Mirror (Tân San and Gō͘-niû). The dependent puppet figure of Nanguan opera, binding-foot, makeup look, and the singing of an actress all become the symbols of domination, oppression, regulation, distortion, and materialization.
In late Qin dynasty, Lo-Jin (Lugang nowadays), was a flourishing city, with a long boulevard stretching mile and mile. The harbor at that time was full of sail and boat, and cargos went as an endless stream. Hustle and bustle of the city were all over around. Literati gathered in meandering alleys, amusing themselves and making their moment. The melodious string sounds of Nanguan spread like inheriting belief. "Withholding the Umbrella" (Liu-San) of Tale of the Lychee and the Mirror as bone, and many corresponding characters of Passage to Lo-Jin as flesh, Nanguan theater summons the fading lives that keep being unknown and only exist in the experience hidden deeply in meandering alley.
The very beginning of the story is a company, Quanzhou Liyuan troupe, came to Taiwan and performed the folk story, Tale of the Lychee and the Mirror, which had stirred whole Minnan community. The storyline of the folk story is about a Quanzhou intellectual Chen San disguises himself as a mirror maker and breaks the cherish mirror of the Huang family, intending to approach the beauty of Ms. Huang (Wu Niang). Chen San promises to work as a slave in her family for three years as compensation, however, he receives no reply from the one he loves after two-year work. The upset love-seeker seizes an umbrella and decides to leave. At the moment, the maidservant, Yi-Chun, of Wu Niang rushed out and asked Chen San to stay!
In the other hand, the protagonist in the novel, Hsu Ching, is the actor who plays the female character Yi-Chun. His performance in the part "Withholding the Umbrella" brings him great reputation, and afterward also makes him become a catamite of a Lugang treasurer, Wu Chiu. At the same time, Hsu Ching acquaints and falls in love with a young actress Wan, who brings Hsu Ching the confusion of his own identity. Unable to be autonomous for years, the actor finally meets his lover; however, the crucial fate has changed him a lot. Hearkening to the beautiful and familiar Nanguan sound performed by Wan, Hsu Ching is ashamed to recognize his old acquaintance. Because after their last parting, he was raped by a seemingly-solemn local officer Zhu Shi-Guang.
The happy ending of the folk story and the tragic novel plot reflect each other, symbolizing the helplessness of humble people who breathe in a great era. Traditional xiqu and contemporary play are interwoven together and taken apart here. By the unique Quanzhou tone, the audience could take a glimpse of the rise and fall of Lugang which was one of the most prosperous cities at that time.
Pre-talk
2021/12/18(Sat)18:50-19:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2021/12/19(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Playwright｜WU Ming-lun
Director｜CHEN Yu-dien
CAST｜WEI Mei-hui, CHEN Yan-xi, LIAO Jia-huew, CHAN, Fu-Hsuan, LI Wei-Cih, KU Yung-Yen, TUNG Hsu-Fang
MUSICIAN｜CHEN Chia-wen, LIAO Yu-ning, LAI Hong-ling, WANG Chiung-Chi, LIN Shih-lian, LIU Meng-ling
Tour times
2021/12/11 (Sat) 14:30
2021/12/12(Sun) 14:30
Gang-a Tsui Theater - Passage to Lo-Jin
"L'histoire de Hsu Ching est aussi troublante que captivante. Initialement entraîné par l'exigence de sa passion pour l'art, Hsu Ching se découvre peu à peu asservi aux contraintes genrées d'un sexe qui n'est pas le sien...Yu-Dien Chen choisit de concilier les besoins dramaturgiques de l'opéra classique chinois avec une relative sobriété scénographique. Un texte projeté fait office de voix de conteur muette. Au fond, quatre musiciennes, armées d'instruments traditionnels, accompagnent le déroulé de la fable et le chant des acteurs...
L'œuvre multiplie les couches de sens en associant à la question du genre, de la colonisation taïwanaise et des déchirures identitaires qu’elle causa au xixe siècle.'——IO Gazette, n°102
Combined with Nanguan, the experimental play Passage to Lo-Jin is adapted from the work of Shih Shu-Ching, the winner of National Awards of Art, whose first novel of Taiwan Trilogy. The story is about the life of Hsu Ching who visited Taiwan thrice. As a Liyuan Xi performer, he grows his own identity toward the gender and the land by performing as a female character in Tale of the Lychee Mirror (Tân San and Gō͘-niû). The dependent puppet figure of Nanguan opera, binding-foot, makeup look, and the singing of an actress all become the symbols of domination, oppression, regulation, distortion, and materialization.
In late Qin dynasty, Lo-Jin (Lugang nowadays), was a flourishing city, with a long boulevard stretching mile and mile. The harbor at that time was full of sail and boat, and cargos went as an endless stream. Hustle and bustle of the city were all over around. Literati gathered in meandering alleys, amusing themselves and making their moment. The melodious string sounds of Nanguan spread like inheriting belief. "Withholding the Umbrella" (Liu-San) of Tale of the Lychee and the Mirror as bone, and many corresponding characters of Passage to Lo-Jin as flesh, Nanguan theater summons the fading lives that keep being unknown and only exist in the experience hidden deeply in meandering alley.
The very beginning of the story is a company, Quanzhou Liyuan troupe, came to Taiwan and performed the folk story, Tale of the Lychee and the Mirror, which had stirred whole Minnan community. The storyline of the folk story is about a Quanzhou intellectual Chen San disguises himself as a mirror maker and breaks the cherish mirror of the Huang family, intending to approach the beauty of Ms. Huang (Wu Niang). Chen San promises to work as a slave in her family for three years as compensation, however, he receives no reply from the one he loves after two-year work. The upset love-seeker seizes an umbrella and decides to leave. At the moment, the maidservant, Yi-Chun, of Wu Niang rushed out and asked Chen San to stay!
In the other hand, the protagonist in the novel, Hsu Ching, is the actor who plays the female character Yi-Chun. His performance in the part "Withholding the Umbrella" brings him great reputation, and afterward also makes him become a catamite of a Lugang treasurer, Wu Chiu. At the same time, Hsu Ching acquaints and falls in love with a young actress Wan, who brings Hsu Ching the confusion of his own identity. Unable to be autonomous for years, the actor finally meets his lover; however, the crucial fate has changed him a lot. Hearkening to the beautiful and familiar Nanguan sound performed by Wan, Hsu Ching is ashamed to recognize his old acquaintance. Because after their last parting, he was raped by a seemingly-solemn local officer Zhu Shi-Guang.
The happy ending of the folk story and the tragic novel plot reflect each other, symbolizing the helplessness of humble people who breathe in a great era. Traditional xiqu and contemporary play are interwoven together and taken apart here. By the unique Quanzhou tone, the audience could take a glimpse of the rise and fall of Lugang which was one of the most prosperous cities at that time.
Pre-talk
2021/12/18(Sat)18:50-19:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2021/12/19(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Playwright｜WU Ming-lun
Director｜CHEN Yu-dien
CAST｜WEI Mei-hui, CHEN Yan-xi, LIAO Jia-huew, CHAN, Fu-Hsuan, LI Wei-Cih, KU Yung-Yen, TUNG Hsu-Fang
MUSICIAN｜CHEN Chia-wen, LIAO Yu-ning, LAI Hong-ling, WANG Chiung-Chi, LIN Shih-lian, LIU Meng-ling
Tour times
2021/12/11 (Sat) 14:30
2021/12/12(Sun) 14:30
- Price: 300, 500, 800
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 90 minutes without intermission.
Performed in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Quanzhou dialect with Mandarin and English surtitles.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
