- Date 2007.10.25
- Venue National Experimental Theatre
Tsen
Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group
Comments on the Finalist
The artist deployed multi-dimensional and intertwined musical and visual vocabularies, creating a distinctive rhythm and a whole new sense of time and space. A clear context was created-obvious in the overall structure and the smaller details. The complex psychology of relationships of the individual and society is reflected in the intense emotional energy of the performance. The production stirs up different and sometimes extreme responses.
Jury’s Comments for the Jury's Special Award
The director bravely makes the performance in progress with the concept of “playback” such as reverse, forward, slow-down, and repetition. Other musical approaches, similar to canon and counterpoint, transform the stage into a music movement of space. Aside from the art form, the director furthers the theme from “love” to “war” and “death” with a unique communication. It is a magical touch to lift the sarcastic-toned performance up to an epic vision. The production creates an un-precedent criteria for both the art form and in aesthetics (by Yu-pin LIN)
About the Artist
Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group (SWSG) was founded in 1995. The group's name is based on Virginia Woolf's “A Room of One's Own.” SWSG incorporate themes and stories from modern literature, contemporary societal issues. The actors use movement, music, imaginative lighting, staging and costuming to create a truly innovative theatre experience.Their annual production schedule is busy as they stage two or more productions annually, plus they are invited to theatre festivals around the world such as Paris, Beijing and Tokyo. In 2002, their production of “Zodiac II” was nominated for a Taishin Arts Award.
