“Yes,” he replied, “I think great spiritual beings have no sex. They are both male and female. Virginia Woolf was known for writing standing up. I’ve made a high table of glass with four seahorses as legs. The seahorse is one of the few creatures on earth where both the male and female reproduce.”
Wilson ended by offering an enticing prospect of further appearances in Taiwan, saying he planned to be back in Taipei in a year’s time, for an exhibition and for new work.
Tonight’s premier of Orlando promises to be an engrossing, but perhaps also controversial, experience. Wilson’s theatrical minimalism can be purifying, but it also has its critics. Even so, this Taiwan debut of one of the most celebrated of theater artists cannot be anything less than a must-see event.
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