TAIPEI SUITCASE

ABOUT THE PLAY

A modern-day fairy tale "for grown-ups" about the secret symbols of the city that permeate the body and soul. The production combines the techniques of puppet theatre, live video and object theatre with the use of visual art and music.

Somewhere in Taipei. A man and a woman in the city have a dinner date. They ride a scooter through town to a traditional market where they buy food for dinner. While they shop, the distinctive atmosphere of the traditional market and items unique to Taiwan bring them a taste of life in Taipei. As food is prepared and cooked, the intimacy between the two grows and the whimsical world of food and lust is revealed.

Nonverbal with brief dialogues in English.

• 25 min.
• Age category:10+
• Directed by:Pei-Yu SHIH, Chia-Jui OU
• Music by:Huan-Fu YU
• Designed by:Hsueh-Yin SHEN

About the theatre:

Flying Group Theatre was founded by Pei-Yu Shih in May of 2004. In Chinese the name “flying group” is the homonym for “non-human”, which represents puppetry while also implying the place in which the artists who “fly” around freely in the theatre gather together. Flying Group Theatre aims to create artworks with the spirit of diversity and integration and challenge the traditionally accepted distance between performer and audience.