big bang species
物種大樂團
National Theatre
2020/10/23 (Friday) 19:30
2020/10/24 (Saturday) 14:30, 19:30
2020/10/25 (Sunday) 14:30
Production Team: Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group
Original: Darwin
Choreographer: Wang Jia-Ming
Producer: Chen Han-Qing
Actor:
Wang Hong-Yuan, Li Ming-Zhe, Li Ban-Yu, Qiu Li-Shu, Cui Tai-Hao, Cui Bi-Fu, Zhang Nian-Ci, Mo Zi-Yi, Xu Chen-Xi, Tin Oi Chan, Chen Shu-Yun, Si Man Huen
(sorted by last name stroke in Traditional Chinese)
Live Orchestra: Elephant Gymnastics
Stage Design: Li Bo-Lin
Stage technical guidance: Li Bo-Han
Lighting Design: Liu Bo-Xin
Lighting technical guidance: Liu Yan-Ting
Costume Design: Wu Dao-Qi
Video Design: Xu Yi-jun
Action Design Director: Lin Su-Lian
Original Song and Music Design:
Elephant Gymnastics
Music and sound design: Ke Zhi-Hao
Audio technical coordinator: Chen Duo-Fu
Orchestra Sound Technology: Qiu Jian-Jun
Stage Manager: Lin Dai-Rong
Graphic photography: Chen Yi-Tang, Yin Jie
Graphic Design: Hong Zhanglian
Main Visual 3D Art: Huang Haien
Performance video: Chen Guan-Yu, Yang Zhe-Qi, Chen Shi-En
The extinction of living things, the disappearance of kingdoms, the loss of language, the end of an era... If history is the sum of a series of disappearances, when will mankind face extinction?
Director Jia-Ming Wang takes Darwin's "Origin of Species" as the coordinate to extend the ethnic nature of modern ecology, from the family history of actors themselves, and at the same time to explore the cultural migration of ethnic groups, from individuals and families to national and political wars and internal conflicts. Fights and conflicts are intertwined into a work of speculation about the fate of mankind: where do we come from on the same island? Where will it go? There is no common past, but will there be a common future?
The performance continues Wang Jiaming's usual complex audio-visual elements, dismantling, blending, scheduling, and application of narrative texture. The music invited the "Elephant Gymnastics" orchestra to perform live. Its digital rock style gives the invisible sound a rich theater form.