Theater
If Kids Theater (如果兒童劇團) has teamed up with Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra (台北市立國樂團) and The Taipei Folk Dance Company (台北民族舞團) to bring audiences The Unforgettable Legend (東方夜譚). The family production is based on a story written by popular Taiwanese folk author Sih-ma Jhong-yuan (司馬中原) and tells the story of a snake that teaches martial arts to a woodcutter and the consequent struggles he faces with his newfound fighting skills.
▲ Metropolitan Hall (城市舞台), 25 Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號)
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm; tomorrow and Sunday at 10:30am and 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,000 and are available through NTCH ticketing
City Lights (城市之光) by Dream Work Clown Theater Group（夢想小丑劇團）is a production based on the movie of the same name written by Charlie Chaplin. The play mixes humor, stage magic and clown routines.
▲ Chiayi Performing Arts Center (嘉義縣表演藝術中心), 265, Jianguo Rd Sec 2, Minsyong Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣民雄鄉建國路二段265號)
▲ Tomorrow at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$200 to NT$600 and are available through NTCH ticketing
Off Performance Workshop (外表坊) will perform a stage adaptation of Scener ur ett aktenskap (Scenes From a Marriage) and is the final performance of NTCH’s 2008 International Theater Festival. The play is based on the six-part television series written and filmed by Swedish director Igmar Bergman of the same name and tells the story of a husband and wife who go through a series of difficulties that eventually result in the breakdown of their marriage.
▲National Experimental Theater, Taipei City
▲Thursday at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 and are available through NTCH ticketing
Classical music
NSO Forever Tales — Peer Gynt Wonderland (NSO永遠的童話皮爾金 — 昆蟲的異想世界), a mixture of music and theater intended to be enjoyed by the whole family brings together the prodigious talents of the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Chang Yin-fang (張尹芳), with TV host Tung Chih-cheng (董志成), theater director and comedian Chao Chih-chiang (趙自強), choreographer Wu Yi-fang (吳義芳) and members of the If Kids Theater Group (如果兒童劇團). This program, based on the well-known composition by Grieg, follows on from the highly successful Peter and the Wolf, Fire Bird and Carnival of the Animals.
▲Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm; tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,000 and are available through NTCH ticketing
New Sounds of Taiwan — Requiem for 228 (台灣新聲 — 二二八安魂曲) will see the Music Department of the National Taiwan Normal University (國立台灣師範大學音樂學系) perform Requiem for 228, a composition by He Fang-lug (柯芳隆). The concert will also feature a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.”
▲Monday at 7:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$200 to NT$500 and are available through NTCH ticketing
Piano Duet-Duo d’Accord (和諧雙鋼琴) will feature the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (臺北市立交響樂團) under the baton of Martin Fischer-Dieskau and featuring gu zheng (古箏) soloist Hwang Hao-yin (黃好吟). The program includes Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E Major, Ma Shuei-long’s (馬水龍) Searching, for Gu Zheng and Orchestra and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73.
▲Wednesday at 7:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$200 to NT$800 and are available through NTCH ticketing
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