When Plays Travel Afar Across Languages and Cultures – The First Taiwan International Play Reading Festival
If we view playwriting as a literary form, what distinguishes it from others is its reliance on...
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A Fish Swimming Across Tanks: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Hsuan Chou
Even with solid training in xiqu, or Chinese opera, Yu-Hsuan Chou tried to leave traditions behind...
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A Man Without Shadows: An Interview with Theatre Artist Koh Choon Eiow, Part 2
(Read the first part of the interview here.) Chen: In your plays, or the ways you answer...
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A Man Without Shadows: An Interview with Theatre Artist Koh Choon Eiow, Part 1
(Read the second part of the interview here.) Outside the bright, modern meeting room on the 10th...
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Beautiful Detours: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Cheng-Chun Lee
Cheng-Chun Lee was an underperforming student in his high school composition classes. It was...
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Writing On An Empty Stage: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Chien-Cheng Chen
Taiwanese playwright Chien-Cheng Chen is set to release A Chronicle of Consciousness, his second...
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Writing Across Taiwan and Macau: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Chiao-Jung Chen
It’s very hard to define Chiao-Jung Chen as one kind of artist, for she is someone who works...
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Thriving in an Either-Or World: An Interview with Taiwan-based Pangcah Theatre Artist Ihot Sinlay Cihek
Ihot Sinlay Cihek is a Taiwan-based Pangcah theatre artist whose work confronts the intersecting...
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Curtain-Up in Taipei: A City Stages Its Own Tonys
In New York City, the window between May and June signals the arrival of Tony Awards season....
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Exploring a Global Vision in the Sinosphere: An Interview with Katherine Chou, Chair of the World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights
The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in...
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On Creativity, Labor, and Uncertainty: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Chia Wei
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
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Playwriting Awards in Taiwan: Recognition and Reality
Playwriting awards have always been a promised land for playwrights. For emerging storytellers,...
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Nanako Matsumoto and Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) Trekking Mountains
As part of Kyoto Experiment, I watched at the black box of Theatre E9 two performers interact with...
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The Images of Me: 2024 Prologue New Play Festival
Staged readings are a liminal period for new plays in development. For rough ideas, they can be a...
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New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 1
New writing stretches the boundaries of theatre arts. Though writing may seem a solitary...
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New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 2
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Prologue Center for New Plays Having worked...
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“The Arabian Nights” in Taiwan: Deserted in the Oriental Dream
Originally a collection of West Asian folktales, The Arabian Nights may be the series of...
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Black Theatre in Asia—Spotlight Query
It began as a direct message conversation between two black creatives: Ghanniy Oyedele from...
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Under the Water – The Journey between Taipei and Copenhagen
“We began with looking for the differences between us, but at some point we came to realize that...
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Windows into Performance Art: River Lin’s Artistic and Curatorial Practices
Networking is both motif and method in the work of River Lin (林人中). Performing, directing,...
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