Ping-Fong Acting Troupe (
To retrace its own footsteps, Ping-Fong will re-stage My Kid Sister (
PHOTO COURTESY OF PING-FONG ACTING TROUPE
Chang is one of the few writers in Taiwan who has spanned the critical divide, producing works that have appealed to critics while proving popular with the public as well.
Published in 1992, My Kid Sister shocked Taiwan's literary world with its unprecedented juxtaposition of adolescent experiences from female and male perspectives. Having a female protagonist dissect male chauvinism and expose men's weaknesses was so unconventional that the novel sold over 100,000 copies at the time.
Touched by the rarely depicted bond between a brother and sister, Hugh Lee (
In his adaptation, Lee stays true to the novel's setting -- a highly conservative veteran's village in the 1970s where sexual curiosity and even human affection is frowned on. Lee's skill at using comedy to highlight serious social issues is used to good effect here, with Lee presenting a faithful adaptation without undermining the humor of the original work.
Ping-Fong Acting Troupe will perform My Kid Sister at 7:30pm from April 11 through April 20 at Novel Hall (新舞臺) located at 3-1, Sungshou Rd., Taipei. Matinees will be held tomorrow, Sunday, April 19 and April 20 at 2:30pm.
The performance then goes to Chungshan Hall in Taichung on April 26 and April 27, the Performance Hall of Hsinchu Culture Bureau the following weekend and Kaoshiung's Chite Hall on May 10 and May 11 were it wraps up. Tickets range from NT$400 to NT$1500, and are available at Acer ticketing outlets. For more information, call the group at (02) 29382005.
Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,500, and are available at Acer ticketing outlets. For more information call the group at (02) 2938-2005.
Common sense is not that common: a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania concludes the concept is “somewhat illusory.” Researchers collected statements from various sources that had been described as “common sense” and put them to test subjects. The mixed bag of results suggested there was “little evidence that more than a small fraction of beliefs is common to more than a small fraction of people.” It’s no surprise that there are few universally shared notions of what stands to reason. People took a horse worming drug to cure COVID! They think low-traffic neighborhoods are a communist plot and call
Taiwan, once relegated to the backwaters of international news media and viewed as a subset topic of “greater China,” is now a hot topic. Words associated with Taiwan include “invasion,” “contingency” and, on the more cheerful side, “semiconductors” and “tourism.” It is worth noting that while Taiwanese companies play important roles in the semiconductor industry, there is no such thing as a “Taiwan semiconductor” or a “Taiwan chip.” If crucial suppliers are included, the supply chain is in the thousands and spans the globe. Both of the variants of the so-called “silicon shield” are pure fantasy. There are four primary drivers
The sprawling port city of Kaohsiung seldom wins plaudits for its beauty or architectural history. That said, like any other metropolis of its size, it does have a number of strange or striking buildings. This article describes a few such curiosities, all but one of which I stumbled across by accident. BOMBPROOF HANGARS Just north of Kaohsiung International Airport, hidden among houses and small apartment buildings that look as though they were built between 15 and 30 years ago, are two mysterious bunker-like structures that date from the airport’s establishment as a Japanese base during World War II. Each is just about
The female body is a horror movie waiting to happen. From puberty and the grisly onset of menstruation, in pictures such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie and John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps, to pregnancy and childbirth — Rosemary’s Baby is the obvious example — women have provided a rich seam of inspiration for genre film-makers over the past half century. But look a little closer and two trends become apparent: the vast majority of female body-based horror deals with various aspects of the reproductive system, and it has largely been made by men (Titane and The First Omen, two recent examples
RSS