Taipei-based, English-language theater company, Phoenix Theatre, will be
performing its latest production over the following two weekends, when
amateur thespians Maurice Harrington, Paul Jackson, Melanie Micco and Norman
Szabo take to the stage of the Tien Cultural Center to perform Terry
Johnson's disturbing and deranged comedy, Hysteria.
Since its founding in 1999, Phoenix's director, Catherine Diamond, has been
responsible for bringing some of the finest and most professionally produced
amateur, English-language theater to venues thoughout Taipei.
Its performances of Birth and Afterbirth, by Tina Howe, Universal Language,
by David Ives, Metamorphosis, and Yasmina Rez's Art have all received rave
reviews for both their direction and acting.
Set in London in 1939, on the eve of Sigmund Freud's death from cancer,
Hysteria is a fast-paced verbal comedy that sees Freud assailed by Salvador
Dali, his doctor and a mysterious woman and forced to defend his theories.
Under the influence of morphine, Freud begins to let loose the many demons
from deep within his long-repressed unconscious and in turn is forced to
talk about his attempt to undermine the Biblical and religious myths of his
Jewish faith.
The Phoenix Theatre will perform "Hysteria" at the Tien Cultural Center, B2,
24 Hsinhai Rd., Sec. 1, Taipei (臺北市辛亥路一段24號B2) at 7:30pm tomorrow,
Sunday and again on June 8 and 9. Tickets cost NT$250 at the door. The play
contains mature themes and is not appropriate for children.
Recently the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and its Mini-Me partner in the legislature, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), have been arguing that construction of chip fabs in the US by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is little more than stripping Taiwan of its assets. For example, KMT Legislative Caucus First Deputy Secretary-General Lin Pei-hsiang (林沛祥) in January said that “This is not ‘reciprocal cooperation’ ... but a substantial hollowing out of our country.” Similarly, former TPP Chair Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) contended it constitutes “selling Taiwan out to the United States.” The two pro-China parties are proposing a bill that
March 9 to March 15 “This land produced no horses,” Qing Dynasty envoy Yu Yung-ho (郁永河) observed when he visited Taiwan in 1697. He didn’t mean that there were no horses at all; it was just difficult to transport them across the sea and raise them in the hot and humid climate. “Although 10,000 soldiers were stationed here, the camps had fewer than 1,000 horses,” Yu added. Starting from the Dutch in the 1600s, each foreign regime brought horses to Taiwan. But they remained rare animals, typically only owned by the government or
It starts out as a heartwarming clip. A young girl, clearly delighted to be in Tokyo, beams as she makes a peace sign to the camera. Seconds later, she is shoved to the ground from behind by a woman wearing a surgical mask. The assailant doesn’t skip a beat, striding out of shot of the clip filmed by the girl’s mother. This was no accidental clash of shoulders in a crowded place, but one of the most visible examples of a spate of butsukari otoko — “bumping man” — shoving incidents in Japan that experts attribute to a combination of gender
Last month, media outlets including the BBC World Service and Bloomberg reported that China’s greenhouse gas emissions are currently flat or falling, and that the economic giant appears to be on course to comfortably meet Beijing’s stated goal that total emissions will peak no later than 2030. China is by far and away the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, generating more carbon dioxide than the US and the EU combined. As the BBC pointed out in their Feb. 12 report, “what happens in China literally could change the world’s weather.” Any drop in total emissions is good news, of course. By
RSS