Tuesday, October 28, 20147:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Music Hall – Jan Popper Theatre
6:30- Reception with light refreshments
7:30- Performance Begins
Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company performs traditional puppet theatre while finding new and creative ways to further enhance the beauty of this traditional art. The company combines the skills of puppeteers such as Master Chen Xihuang (75), as well as Taiwanese puppet carvers, designers and writers. The music for our performances is generally performed live and much appreciated. All this resulted in several successful plays, such as “Marco Polo,” “The Wedding of the Mice,” “The Honorable Thief Liao Tianding,” and “The Beauty of Taiwanese Puppet Theatre.” These plays have been performed in over twenty countries around the world, in many different venues, such as the Purcell Room and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Casa de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Casa Mila in Barcelona, 16th Century churches in Holland, the city of Abakan in Central Siberia, the Traditional Opera House in Hanoi, and also in the countryside of Cambodia and Central and South America.
All shows are presented with English and Chinese text projection. Interactive encounters are arranged after each show, so that the audience can have a hands-on feeling of traditional Taiwanese puppet theatre.
A Sea of Puppets is a traditional Taiwanese glove puppet show performed on a beautifully carved wooden stage. With amazing skill, the puppeteers bring the exquisite puppets with embroidered costumes to life. They not only perform delicate gestures, but also exciting fighting scenes and acrobatics. The story is a romantic tale where a young man saves a girl from the hands of a villain (clown character). In the show we will see all the characters of traditional Taiwanese puppet theatre: the young lady, the scholar, the clowns and the villains.
This show was performed in over 30 countries. In this fascinating performance, we will see a glimpse of one of the most beautiful theatre performances in the world and the sheer virtuosity of the Taiwanese puppet performance accompanied by live music by three musicians and singers. The show is suitable for an audience of all ages.
There will be complimentary parking at Parking Structure 2.
