Theater
I-actor uses the play-within-a-play trope as a means of exploring the ways in which actors interpret characters in a literary work - here, auditions for the lead role in The Little Prince, the famous novella written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
▲ Guling Street Theater (牯嶺街小劇場), 3F, 2, Ln 5, Guling St, Taipei City (台北市牯嶺街5巷2號3樓)
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$350 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com
Communicating Doors (開錯門中門) is Godot Theater's (果陀劇場) interpretation of Alan Ayckbourn's well-known play. The screwball comedy takes place in a five-star hotel where an elderly man is about to reveal to his lover his complicity in the murders of his two former wives. But when his business partner catches wind of the plan, he attempts to foil the confession.
▲ Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館), 505, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (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$400 to NT$2,000 and are available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
A thinly veiled attack on Taiwanese media, Media Tycoon (媒體大亨) by Capital Ballet (台北首督芭蕾舞團) uses dance to take an ironic look at how a rich media baron sacrifices his friendships, loves, family and soul to become rich and powerful.
▲ Taipei Cultural Center (台北市立社教館), 25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號)
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$600 to NT$800 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com
Wedding of the Mice (大稻埕的老鼠新娘) is a puppet production by Taiwan's Taiyuan Puppet Theater Company (台原偶戲團), and is adapted from a traditional Chinese fairy tale. It tells the story of the daughter of the mouse lord who is in love with a poor mouse but is expected to marry the winner of a competition held by her father. The father deems the poor mouse unworthy of competing for his daughter's hand in marriage, but true love eventually wins the day.
▲ Nadou Theater (納豆劇場), 79 Xining N Rd, Taipei City (台北市西寧北路79號)
▲ Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$200 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com
Classical muisc
Sense and Sensibility (感性and 理性), a violin recital Kao Chiung-Lin (高瓊鈴) will feature the two aspects of the performer's personality as she presents a program including Mozart's Adagio, Bach's Partita for Violin Solo No. 2, Ravel's Sonata Posthume and R. Strauss' Violin Sonata in E-flat Op. 18. She will be accompanied by Hsieh Shu-yi (謝書儀), also on violin.
▲ Chihshan Hall, Kaohsiung Cultural Center (高雄文化中心至善廳), 67 Wufu 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市五福一路67號)
▲ Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$100 and NT$200 and are available through ERA ticketing
Ke-Hsing Kaye Chung Flute Recital (鐘可欣長笛獨奏會), a leading local flautist who has toured with James Galway, will perform a program on contemporary pieces including Arthur Foote's Three Pieces for Flute and Piano, Op. 31, Fikret Amirov's Six Pieces for Flute and Piano, Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Flute and Piano, Philippe Gaubert's Sonata in A for Flute and Piano, Frederick Kuhlau's Trio in G major, Op. 119 for Flute, Cello and Piano. She will be accompanied by Liao Jiao-han (廖皎含) on piano and Lu Chao-lun (呂超倫) on cello.
▲ National Recital Hall, Taipei City
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