Theater
Part of the Young Stars, New Vision 2009 series of dance and theater performances initiated by the National Theater and Concert Hall to showcase emerging talents, Theatre I (戲劇—狂想的風景) consists of two shows: Understanding Drama (戲劇概論) is director Chiang Jui-ming’s (姜睿明) study on his experience of being a transvestite, while Clear Life (黑白過) is a solo performance by Vera Chen (陳雪甄) about her search for happiness.
■ Experimental Theater, Taipei City
■ Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$300, available
through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
The Village (寶島一村) takes a nostalgic look at Taiwan’s veteran villages through the lives of three families, from 1949 to the present day. Television producer Wang Wei-chung (王偉忠) teams up with respected director Stan Lai (賴聲川) to produce a dramatic and humorous work about the communities that did much to shape modern Taiwan.
■ National Theater, Taipei City
■ Tonight and Tuesday 7:30pm, tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
and 7:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$400 to NT$3,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Based on American playwright Neil Simon’s comedy of the same name, Green Ray Theatre’s (綠光劇團) Plaza Suite recounts the trials and tribulations of four couples. The cast includes Luo Bei-an (羅北安), Deng An-ning (鄧安寧) and pop star Eddie Peng (彭于晏).
■ Novel Hall (新舞臺), 3-1 Songshou Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路3-1號)
■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$600 to NT$2,000, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Fu-hsing Beijing Opera Troupe (復興國劇團) of the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts (國立台灣戲曲學院) presents Li Hsiang-chun (李香君), a kun opera (崑劇) love story that centers on the famed courtesan Li Hsiang-chun and scholar Hou Fang-yu (侯方域) of the Ming Dynasty.
BY NOAH BUCHAN
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, human rights and environmental activist Joern Mothes will give a lecture titled Berlin Wall — The Voice of the Other Side tomorrow for the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation (龍應台文化基金會) as part of its ongoing Taipei Salon series.
The former two-term State Commissioner for the Stasi Archives of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will discuss the changes that have taken place in the former East Germany over the past two decades, and touch on the historical importance of the mountains of files collected by the Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi. The lecture kicks off with the 2006 documentary Last to Know, a heart-wrenching look at the stories of three families from the former German Democratic Republic who had one or more members imprisoned for dissident behavior.
▲Taipei Salon (台北沙龍), Berlin Wall — The Voice of the Other Side. The lecture and screening will take place at Yue-han Hall (月涵堂), 110 Jinhua St, Taipei City (台北市金華街110號). The lecture will be conducted in German with interpretation in Mandarin. Admission is free, but those attending must pre-register online at www.civictaipei.org or by calling (02) 3322-4907
▲Tomorrow from 1:30pm to 5:30pm. The film will be shown from 1:30pm to 3:40pm. The lecture follows the screening
■ 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, Sunday at 2:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,200, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Dancing Portrait of Taiwan (舞語台灣), Taipei Folk Dance Theater’s (台北民族舞團) newest production, features works by three male choreographers, including Kuo Jui-lin (郭瑞林) and Hu Min-shan (胡民山), who found inspiration in rural southern Taiwan.
■ Chiayi Performing Arts Center (嘉義縣表演藝術中心演藝廳), 265, Jianguo Rd Sec 2, Minsyong Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣民雄鄉建國路二段265號)
■ Tomorrow at 7:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$350 to NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Classical music
Schumann’s Rhine Vista, 1850 (舒曼的萊茵風景1850), is a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (國家交響樂團) that explores Schumann’s beliefs about the Rhine and its association with the growth of German civilization. The program includes Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G Minor and the Aeolian Caprices by Australian composer Richard Mills.
■ Today 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
Roman Krasnovsky Organ Recital (克拉諾夫斯基管風琴名家獨奏會) will see the noted Ukrainian-born organist, who has graced the halls of Notre-Dame de Paris and King’s College Chapel, give the organ at the National Concert Hall a work out with a program that includes Bach’s Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564, Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland , BWV 659 and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, as well as Johann Christian Heinrick Rinck’s Organ Concerto in F Major, Op. 55, Franck’s Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18 and his own Toccata Domenicale, Op.9.
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