TRAVELING WITH SHAKESPEARE IN TAIWAN 2018
退休戲劇教授和戲班子－2018邀莎翁遊台灣

"Charming Hemei Township, Changhua in 70s X Romeo and Juliet
An overcast and rainy Harbor City, Keelung in 90s X Hamlet
A country far away from Metropolitan region, Taitung X As You Like It

In this play, we integrate Shakespeare’s framework with time and space of this island country with narratives in multi-layers, in attempt to depict the passage of time which abruptly vanished in retrospect.  

As the director Tin-Ni Ma says, her mother asked her to go grocery shopping for dinner when she was little. On the way back home, when she looked up, she was stunned and moved by the breathtaking sunset of rosy clouds up on the roof. “Then I came back, the whole basket was left by the roadside.” It is a 2018 Shakespeare’s Play which takes place in Taipei as well as a sumptuous basket which is left under the gorgeous sunset. 

Troupers, who hardly keep themselves from hunger, try to feast the ones, who are willing come to see the play, with the cozy dreams.

A passionate and dashing elegy for youth
In Charming Hemei Township, Changhua in 70s X Romeo and Juliet

A pampered boy of Hemei manufacturer, Romeo, falls in love with Juliet, a mainland girl grown up in military village. After a gang fight between different ethnic groups, everything are different.

A rite of passage with great bloodshed
In an overcast and rainy Harbor City, Keelung in 90s X Hamlet

A director who is rehearsing Hamlet happens to encounter Hamlet scenario in his real life.

A heartfelt shelter where they play truth or dare
In a country far away from Metropolitan region, Taitung X As You Like It

With the recording project As You Like It, he tries to see through her and her roleplay. With her roleplay, she reveals her heart by accident." 

----One Player Short Ensemble website