Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar will be performed as a Peking opera at the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. The man behind the production, Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo, talks about reviving the Chinese art.
Taichung, Nov. 2 (CNA) Peking Opera veteran Wu Hsing-kuo (吳興國), known for blending Chinese opera with contemporary theater elements, said Tuesday that he will no longer perform the one-man show "Metamorphosis" (蛻變) in Taiwan after his shows in Taichung later this month.
Peking opera star retraces Taiwan history in solo show
03/08/2021 06:26 PM
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Peking opera actress Wei Hai-min plays Orlando in a 2009 production directed by Robert Wilson. Photo courtesy of the National Theater and Concert Hall
Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Peking opera actress Wei Hai-min (魏海敏) will star in a solo show in April that looks back on Taiwan s recent history and has been crafted with videos and photos by prominent artists in their respective fields, the organizers said Monday.
In A Thousand Stages, Yet I Have Not Quite Lived, Singaporean director Ong Keng Sen (王景生) combines Wei s performance and works by her fellow National Award for Arts winners video artist Chen Chieh-jen (陳界仁) and photographer Chang Chao-tang (張照堂).
Highlight: Into the darkness of the heart
By Diane Baker / Staff reporter
The Tai Gu Tales Dance Theater (太古踏舞團) is back at the National Experimental Theater in Taipei this weekend with a new work that interweaves performance genres, cultures, feminism and generations in a bid to get to the core: the human heart.
The choreographer of
Heart Scenery (心之景), Wu Tsai-lin (吳采璘), is well-versed in cross-cultural influences and artistry: Her parents are Wu Hsing-kuo (吳興國) and Lin Hsiu-wei (林秀偉).
Lin founded the dance troupe in 1988, two years after she helped Wu Hsing-kuo found the Contemporary Legend Theatre (當代傳奇劇場), so Wu Tsai-lin grew up seeing her parents create works that fused Eastern cultural traditions and contemporary Western practices.