Exhibition
Directed by Chin Shih-chieh (金士傑) in 1980, Ho Chu’s New Match (荷珠新配) was a legendary production by Lanling Theatre Workshop (蘭陵劇坊) that mixed Beijing opera with modern theater. In celebration of the troupe’s 30th anniversary, Chin returns to the director’s chair to reprise the comedy about a sex worker attempting to pass as a rich man’s daughter.
▲National Theater, Taipei City
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$600 to NT$3,600, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
For the 2009 Taiwan Kun Opera Theatre All Stars (蘭谷名華2009崑劇名家匯演), Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe’s (上海崑劇團) Ji Zhenhua (計鎮華), Liang Guyin (梁谷音) and Zhang Mingrong (張銘榮) team up with artists from Taiwan Kunqu Opera Theatre (台灣崑劇團) for revivals of traditional favorites as well as several rarely performed pieces.
▲Metropolitan Hall (城市舞台), 25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號)
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
A bank robbery takes place in Taiwan Drama Performance’s (台灣戲劇表演家) Sifu (師˙夫). Among the hostages: an award-winning school teacher, a Henan opera star, a martial-arts master, a bakery owner and a pregnant woman. The question: who has the right to decide who should survive?
▲National Tainan Living Art Center (台南生活美學館), 34, Jhonghua W Rd Sec 2, Tainan City (台南市中華西路二段34號)
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$250 to NT$1,200, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
A collaboration between Taiwan’s Taiyuan Puppet Theater Company (台原偶戲團) and Compagnie des Zonzons from France, La Boite is a work of modern puppet theater grounded in tradition, in which two puppet troupes perform a play about two puppet troupes.
▲Pingtung County Art Center (屏東縣藝術館), 427, Heping Rd, Pingtung City (屏東市和平路427號); Chiayi Performing Arts Center (嘉義縣表演藝術中心演藝廳), 265, Jiankuo Rd Sec 2, Minhsiung Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣民雄鄉建國路二段265號)
▲Tonight (Pingtung) and tomorrow (Chiayi) at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$200 and NT$350 (Pingtung), and NT$250 to
NT$800 (Chiayi), available through NTCH ticketing or online at
www.artsticket.com.tw
Tainaner Ensemble’s (台南人劇團) six-hour long K24 is a humorous play within a play featuring nine actors in more than 70 roles. The “K24 Bureau of Investigation” discovers a plot to assassinate the president’s daughter, who’s been cast in the role of Juliet for a professional theater production.
▲Chunghsing Concert Hall, Taichung (台中中興堂), 291-3 Chingwu Rd, Taichung City (台中市精武路291之3號)
▲Tomorrow at 2pm
▲Tickets are NT$800 to NT$2,500, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Classical
AMA Principle Artist Series 12 — Su Shien-ta Violin Recital (亞藝首席獨奏家系列十二 — 蘇顯達小提琴獨奏會), presents a program of classical music on the theme of “the tango,” featuring Tartini-Kreisler’s Devil’s Trill, Smetana’s Aus Der Heimat, Prokofiev’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F-Minor, Op. 80 and Piazolla’s Histoire du Tango. Su will be accompanied by Weng Chung-hua (翁重華) on piano.
▲Tomorrow at 7:30
▲Jhongli Arts Center (中壢藝術館), 16 Jhongmei Rd, Jhongli City (中壢市中美路16號)
▲Tickets are NT$150 to NT$400, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Karoly Mocsari Piano Recital (莫薩里鋼琴獨奏會) brings the renowned interpreter of Liszt and Bartok to Taipei to perform a program that includes works by Liszt, Schumann and Haydn.
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