Theater
The Taipei Philharmonic Foundation teams up with National Literary Award winner Tu He (杜黑) to bring you a musical comedy called The Fabulous World of Otaku (宅男的異想世界). The story follows the life of a computer nerd who hasn't left home, spends his life online and is deeply in love with a woman who he can never have. He eventually meets the object of his desire and though he doesn't find love, he does find something more important: the ability to turn off his computer and face the real world.
*Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館), 505, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei (台北市仁愛路四段505號)
*Today, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
*Tickets are NT$300 to NT$2,200 and are available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
I Don't Want to Be King (我不要當國王了) is a children's story about a young man who is afraid to become king after his father passes away. After listening to the reasoning of a trusted advisor, the young prince relents and agrees to be crowned. However, the prosperity that results from his being crowned is overshadowed by the mass slaughter of birds to protect the country's fruit trees.
*Ilan Performing Arts Center of the Ilan County Cultural Affairs Bureau (宜蘭縣文化局演藝廳), 482, Chungshan Rd Sec 2, Ilan City (宜蘭市中山路二段482號)
*Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
*Tickets are NT$200 to NT$500 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Love is ... Bathroom (愛情說 - 浴室) by New Idea Theater (新點子劇展) tells the story of a young woman who often fantasizes in the bathroom with warm water and soap. One day, however, she brings home a male stranger who in odd ways changes her perspective on life.
*National Experimental Theater, Taipei
*Today, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
*Tickets are NT$450 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
While birds are slaughtered in I Don't Want to Be King, Morning Star Theater's (晨星劇團) The Happy Prince (快樂王子) tells the short tale of a metal statue that befriends a bird. Based on the Oscar Wilde short story of the same name, the friendship between bird and statute brings happiness to others in life and death.
*Taichung Corridor Cafe Theater (文英館迴廊咖啡劇場), 10-5, Shuangshih Rd Sec 1, Taichung City (台中市雙十路一段10-5號)
*Tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
*Tickets are NT$250 to NT$350 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Italian Puppet Show: Sandrone (桑得羅尼) by Taiyuan Puppet Theater (台原偶戲團). The performance follows the humorous buffoonery and exploits of the tall and wickedly intelligent Fagiolino and his short, daft friend Sandrone, the Laurel and Hardy of the puppet theater.
*Nadou Theater (納豆劇場), 79 Xining N Rd, Taipei (台北市西寧北路79號)
*Tomorrow at 3pm
*Tickets are NT$200 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Those interested in beiguan (北管) or nanguan (南管) music could do no worse than check out the performances this weekend that are part of the Guandu Arts Festival (關渡藝術節). Tomorrow features a double nanguan performance starting off with To-hoe Takes the Ferry (桃花搭渡), the story of a maid who has to deliver an important letter to her mistress' lover. The second tale features a businessman from Fukien Province who comes to Taiwan to visit his lover but leaves after receiving a letter urging his return to China. Seeing Kuan Fu Off (管甫送) is a nanguan tale of love and the sorrows of departure. On Sunday, the music heads north with two beiguan performances based on one part of Journey to the West (西遊記), called Uproar in Heaven (大鬧天宮), the section of the work where Sun Wu-kong (孫悟空), or the Monkey King, declares himself equal to heaven and must then defeat many heavenly soldiers so he can be granted a seat at the heavenly court.
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