Theater
The latest musical by Tafen Musical Theater (大風劇團), It’s a Wonderful Life (美好的人生), is a light-hearted comedy about four young thespians pursuing their dreams while struggling to make ends meet in Taipei. The 21-member cast includes theater veterans Wang Bosen (王柏森) and Huang Shih-wei (黃士偉).
▲National Theater, Taipei City
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$900 to NT$3,000, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Founded by graduates of National Taiwan University’s theater department, Dreamscape Theater is staging an adaptation of English playwright and novelist Anthony Shaffer’s 1970 play Sleuth, a suspenseful tale about a role-playing game between a husband and his wife’s paramour that turns fatal.
▲Guling Street Theater (牯嶺街小劇場), 2, Ln 5, Guling St, Taipei City (台北市牯嶺街5巷2號)
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$350, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Based on Tennessee Williams’ play of the same title, The Glass Menagerie by Godot Theater Company (果陀劇場) stars veteran actress Tan Ai-chen (譚艾珍), seasoned stage actress Yan Chia-le (顏嘉樂) and television actor Shih I-nan (施易男).
▲Kaohsiung Chih-Teh Hall (高雄至德堂), 67 Wufu 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市五福一路67號)
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$2,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s (雲門舞集) second company, Cloud Gate 2, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Spring Riot (春鬥), a tour that continues today in Taichung before moving to Kaohsiung next week. The program includes Island of Silence (緘默之島) by Gu Ming-sheng (古名伸) and Lin Hwai-ming’s (林懷民) Waiting for Spring Wind (望春風).
This weekend is the 10th Annual Tainan May Jam, a laid-back affair with a slew of bands held at The Water Bird Living Room outdoor restaurant near Tainan. It’s the “most independent, not pretentious” event organizer Axel Schunn said. “Nobody gets famous at this festival.” Usually the Jam is free, but this year there will be a charge of NT$250 to cover the cost of the equipment as Schunn, who does vocals, composes, and plays guitar and blues harp for his band Charlie Swiggs, has teenage children and can’t afford to foot the bill. Though the festival features super funk group The Money Shot Horns, the rest of the artists are relatively unheard of. “Tainan is a very unique place,” said Schunn. “People from here going to a festival don’t ask which bands are playing ... they ask if there is going to be food.” There will be food at the event, provided by the restaurant, which also has outdoor fishing.
WHEN: From tomorrow at noon to 9pm on Sunday, at Water Bird Living Room Restaurant (四草水鳥客廳), 38, Ln 69, Beishanwei 1st Rd, Annan Dist, Tainan City (台南市安南區北汕尾一路69巷38號), with an after party to follow from 9pm to 3am at the Red Wolf Tavern, 229 Gongyuan Rd, Tainan City (台南市公園路229號), tel: (06) 227-2929
GETTING THERE: The Water Bird Living Room Restaurant’s Web site has an excellent map: waterbird2005.myweb.hinet.net/c_transport.htm. Directions can also be found on Axel Schunn’s Web site: www2.eecs.stut.edu.tw/~charlie. Alternatively contact: Schunn at aki_schunn@yahoo.com
ADMISSION:NT$250
TOMORROW’S LINEUP:
12:50 ~ 13:30 Sun of Morning
13:40 ~ 14:20 Song is Good
14:30 ~ 15:10 Mr Dirty
15:20 ~ 16:00 Distress Landing
16:10 ~ 16:50 Mister Green and Highway 9
17:00 ~ 17:40 Monkey Banana
17:50 ~ 18:30 Ferries Wheel Band
18:40 ~ 19:20 Electrocute
19:30 ~ 20:10 Charlie Swiggs
20:20 ~ 21:00 Half Mile Radius
21:10 ~ 22:00 Money Shot Horns
SUNDAY’S LINEUP:
12:00 ~ 12:40 Guitar Slingers
12:50 ~ 13:30 Unfinished
13:40 ~ 14:20 The Cotton Field
14:30 ~ 15:10 Guisele
15:20 ~ 16:00 Drum Circle
16:00 ~ 16:30 The Chanting Nones and Monks
16:30 ~ 17:10 Gruveballs
17:20 ~ 18:00 Metal Fon
18:10 ~ 18:50 Adams Apple
19:00 ~ 19:40 Star 69
19:50 ~ 20:30 Blue DoDo
▲Chungshan Hall (台中市文化局中山堂), 98 Syuesi Rd, Taichung City (台中市學士路98號)
▲Tonight at 7:30pm and tomorrow
at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,200, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
As part of an ongoing series of performances celebrating the 30th anniversary of Lanling Theatre Workshop (蘭陵劇坊), Ping Fong Acting Troupe’s (屏風劇團) Shamlet (莎姆雷特) tells the story of a theater troupe struggling to put on a production of Hamlet amid disputes within the group that lead to chaos and comedy.
▲National Theater, Taipei City
▲Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$600 to NT$3,600, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Classical
NSO Young Maestro Series — The Love Suite (NSO發現未來大師系列—時間與空間的愛情遊戲) sees the National Symphony Orchestra’s (國家交響樂團) former artistic director Chien Wen-pin (簡文彬) return to conduct the world premiere of the The Dream of Red Chamber Symphony (紅樓夢交響曲) by Lai Te-ho (賴德和). The program will also include Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe.
▲Sunday at 7:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,500, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
TSO 40th Anniversary Concert — Bashkirova and the TSO (北市交40週年團慶音樂會—巴許基洛娃與北市交) features the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (臺北市立交響樂團) led by guest conductor Michael Sanderling with soloist Elena Bashkirova on piano. The program includes Shostakovitch’s Festival Overture, Op. 9 and Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, KV. 467.
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