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| Alternative theatrical troupe Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (莎士比亞的妹妹們的劇團) teams up with theater director Baboo to present Sylvia Plath, a stage play about the American poet who is also known for her semi-autobiogrqahpical novel The Bell Jar. Respected stage actress Hsu Yen-ling (徐堰鈴) will play the title role of Plath. The play takes an insightful look at the final day of the poet’s life before she committed suicide aged of 31, and examines the relationship between pain and creativity and the necessity of the former to achieve perfection in the latter. All Taipei performances are sold-out but audiences still have a chance to catch the performance when it travels south to Tainan’s Eslite Bookstore (台南誠品書店). ▲ Taipei performances: Taipei National University of the Arts (國立臺北藝術大學) 1, Xueyuen Rd, Beitou Dist, Taipei City (北市北投區學園路1號). Tainan performances: Eslite Bookstore, Tainan (台南誠品書店), B2, 181 Chungjung St Sec 1, Tainan City (台南市長榮路一段181號B2) ▲ Taipei performances are today, tomorrow and Sunday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm; Tainan performances are April 25, April 26 and April 27 ▲ Tickets are NT$500 for Taipei performances and NT$400 for Tainan performances |  Creativity requires pain in Sylvia Plath, a performance by Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group. PHOTO COURTESY OF SWSG |
Theater
Say Goodbye, Again (再說˙再見) by Open Theater (大開劇團) is a work eminently suited to Taiwan’s education system whereby audiences are meant to leave the theater educated as well as edified. The play investigates metaphorically, symbolically and literally, six different ways to say goodbye — whether to a friend or a negative personal characteristic.
▲ National Experimental Theater, Taipei City
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$400 and are available through NTCH ticketing
Cloud Gate Dance Theater (雲門舞集) will perform Song of the Birds (鳥之歌) as part of its Spring Riot (春鬥) tour. Song of the Birds, choreographed by Cloud Gate founder Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), is set to Spanish cellist Pablo Casals’ piece of the same name (El Cant dels Ocells).
▲ Cultural Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu County (新竹縣文化局演藝廳), 146 Hsiancheng 9th Rd, Chupei City, Hsinchu County (新竹縣竹北市縣政九路146號)
▲ Today at 7:30pm and tomorrow at 3pm
▲ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$900 and are available through NTCH ticketing
Into the Ruins (闖入，廢墟) by Assignment Theater (差事劇團) tells the story of a revolutionary poet who struggles to maintain his sanity in the face of a war caused by a superpower’s lust for oil.
▲ Southern Wind Theater (南風小劇場) 4F, 107, Chunghsiao 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市忠孝一路107號4樓)
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$300 and are available through NTCH ticketing
The Pink Dragon (粉紅龍) is a children’s puppet performance by PUK Puppet Theater Company (普克木偶劇團) and is a coming-of-age story about a young dragon. Cultures throughout history have used rites of passage as a means of changing an individual’s social status. Dragons also have a rite of passage for young male dragons: entering human dreams and turning them into nightmares. And so it goes that a young dragon wanting to enter the world of adults has to undergo this rite of passage. Rather than frighten, however, the young dragon befriends the young boy whose dream he enters.
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