Known for highlighting social issues in their work, Green Ray's repertoire ranges from traditional matrimonial customs in the face of social change, gender roles and relationships in the modern workplace, to the mid-life crises of the urban rich. The subjects and the array of characters are ones that the audience can easily relate to. These are realized as humorous musicals that are fun to watch.
In Taipei/Shanghai, the group's new performance tonight at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, the stampeding herd of tai shang
The plot intertwines the story of a successful businessman who took his successful business to Shanghai only to find it embroiled in a dispute over copyright infringement, the story of a rogue looking to go clean and begin a new life away from Taipei only to find that Shanghai is full of even more temptations, and the story of the young mistress of a tai-shang who wants to find a way out of her often shady circle.
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Through them and several other characters, Lee Yun-feng (
"In the past, our ancestors who were living along the Chinese coast embarked on a journey to Formosa, in a quest for a better future. Today, this island is full of Taiwanese who dream of striking it rich in China. Has all this investment in China realized the these dreams?" asked Lee.
Taipei/Shanghai will be performed at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at 7:30pm today and tomorrow, with matinee shows tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm. Tickets range from NT$350 to NT$1,500 and are available at Era ticketing outlets or by faxing the group at (02) 2321-7352.
Nine Taiwanese nervously stand on an observation platform at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. It’s 9:20am on March 27, 1968, and they are awaiting the arrival of Liu Wen-ching (柳文卿), who is about to be deported back to Taiwan where he faces possible execution for his independence activities. As he is removed from a minibus, a tenth activist, Dai Tian-chao (戴天昭), jumps out of his hiding place and attacks the immigration officials — the nine other activists in tow — while urging Liu to make a run for it. But he’s pinned to the ground. Amid the commotion, Liu tries to
The slashing of the government’s proposed budget by the two China-aligned parties in the legislature, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), has apparently resulted in blowback from the US. On the recent junket to US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, KMT legislators reported that they were confronted by US officials and congressmen angered at the cuts to the defense budget. The United Daily News (UDN), the longtime KMT party paper, now KMT-aligned media, responded to US anger by blaming the foreign media. Its regular column, the Cold Eye Collection (冷眼集), attacked the international media last month in
A pig’s head sits atop a shelf, tufts of blonde hair sprouting from its taut scalp. Opposite, its chalky, wrinkled heart glows red in a bubbling vat of liquid, locks of thick dark hair and teeth scattered below. A giant screen shows the pig draped in a hospital gown. Is it dead? A surgeon inserts human teeth implants, then hair implants — beautifying the horrifyingly human-like animal. Chang Chen-shen (張辰申) calls Incarnation Project: Deviation Lovers “a satirical self-criticism, a critique on the fact that throughout our lives we’ve been instilled with ideas and things that don’t belong to us.” Chang
Feb. 10 to Feb. 16 More than three decades after penning the iconic High Green Mountains (高山青), a frail Teng Yu-ping (鄧禹平) finally visited the verdant peaks and blue streams of Alishan described in the lyrics. Often mistaken as an indigenous folk song, it was actually created in 1949 by Chinese filmmakers while shooting a scene for the movie Happenings in Alishan (阿里山風雲) in Taipei’s Beitou District (北投), recounts director Chang Ying (張英) in the 1999 book, Chang Ying’s Contributions to Taiwanese Cinema and Theater (打鑼三響包得行: 張英對台灣影劇的貢獻). The team was meant to return to China after filming, but
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