Taiwan Season - Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018

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W elcome to the Taiwan Season at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe!

This year the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan is delighted to be celebrating the Taiwan Season’s 5th anniversary on the incredible and energetic world stage the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Once again we are honoured to introduce to an international audience four inspiring Taiwanese companies whose richly varied works highlight the achievements of Taiwan’s lively and creative performing arts community.

With its dynamic, diverse and open-minded society Taiwan provides a fertile field for the continuing development of arts and culture, producing not only world-renowned art groups but also nurturing fresh talent. This year we carry on a rewarding collaboration with our two prestigious venue partners, Dance Base and Summerhall. Together we are bringing a programme of four startlingly different and engaging productions to Edinburgh: Once Upon a Daydream, by Sun Son Theatre, and The Delusion of Home, by Our Theatre, both of which are at Summerhall; and Bon 4 Bon, by Chang Dance Theatre, and Varhung - Heart to Heart, by Tjimur Dance Theatre, which can be seen at Dance Base.

These innovative productions embrace the best of Taiwanese theatre and contemporary dance, while demonstrating the creative zeal and wide-ranging concerns of a new generation of artists and their cultural diversity.

Please do join us in Edinburgh this August for the Taiwan Season’s 5th anniversary. We also hope to warmly welcome you in Taiwan in the near future .

Minister of Culture

Taiwan Season 2018

For the fifth year in a row the world’s biggest arts festival features a showcase of dance and theatre direct from Taiwan In 2018 the Taiwan Season returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a fifth consecutive year with some of the best live performances being made on the island today. Drawn from an open call to practitioners of all art forms in Taiwan, and carefully curated by the key Fringe venues Dance Base and Summerhall, the season spotlights dance and theatre via a quartet of meaningful and uniquely entertaining productions:

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OnceUpon Upona aDaydream Daydream(Summerhall, (Summerhall,Aug Aug1-26) 1-26) *Once

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Varhung– Heart – HearttotoHeart Heart(Dance (DanceBase, Base,Aug Aug3-26) 3-26) *Varhung

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Taiwan Season 2018 warmly invites audiences to experience a range of ideas, emotions and flavours in a hand-picked sampling of some the most stimulating contemporary performances from Taiwan. Whether the tone is playful or dramatic, and based in bubbly fantasy or stark reality, these four shows embrace a gamut of creative impulses, varied settings and complex themes: urban and rural, tradition and modernity, the individual and society, public and private, home and homelessness...

Taiwan Season 2018 is produced and managed collaboratively by Tai He Arts Production Co., Ltd., Taiwan and Step Out Arts, UK and funded by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan.

August 1, 2：£5

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Sun Son returns to Summerhall after the success of Heart of

Darkness in 2017, welcoming you to a light-hearted world of live action and hand-crafted animation. Originally created by visual artist/actor Liu Wan Chun, this disarming show is a 21st century city fairy tale about a single woman who returns home after work every day to a world of the imagination. Hand- drawn animation conjures up home as a safe but possibly confining place of salty tears and sugar water, bathroom karaoke and a mermaid alter ego who isn’t at all as ugly as she might sometimes feel.

Director：Chong-Leong Ng Concept, animator, actress1：Wan-Chun Liu Actress 2：Hui-Yun Chuang Actor：Wei-Loy Chang Music composer, musician：Ivan Alberto Flores Moran, Zi-Yin Chen Lighting Designer：Kuang-Cheng Wei Projectionist：Wei Wu (Sus Scrofa Studio) Crew：Cheng-Han Ng , Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Jen-Yu Chen, Po-Sheng Hsieh Admin Assistant：Boon-Kean Chew

Pei-Fen Low (Administrator)

E：sunsontheatre@gmail.com https://www.sunsontheatre.com/

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he Delusion of Home is a strong, witty, poetic and original documentary-style depiction of everyday life in the Chiayi area of southern Taiwan, refracted through one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Oyster farming and Taoist funeral rites are as much of a touchstone as ‘King Lear’ in Our Theatre’s character-driven study of displacement, poverty, homelessness and the search for meaning and renewal. Live performance and projected photographs of the declining villages of Taiwan’s southern coastline are skilfully integrated to illuminate some stark human truths.

Original Concept：I-Tseng Chuang & Lan-Chuan Yen Director：Jhao-Cian Wang Playwright：Cheng-Ping Hsu Lighting Technician：Chih-Chien Kao Stage Concept：Shih-Lun Lin Set Designer：Wen-Chi Tseng Costume Designer：Yu-Yuan Lin Music Designer：Chun-Yuan Ko Musician：Chun-Yuan Ko Photographers： I-Tseng Chuang & Yun-Shan Chen Stage Manager：Ting-Yu Chuang Actors：In-Ta Chen, Pen-Chieh Yu & Cheng-Ping Hsu Executive Producer：Hui-Lin Hsu PR Manager：Ming-Chun Tsai Subtitle Translator：Ming-Lun Wu Taoist Culture Supervisor：Tsung-Fan Lin Accompanying writer：Yu-Ting Yeh

Hsin-Tung Liao (Admin Director) E: ourtheatre.tw@gmail.com http://ourtheatre.net/

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Ages 8+ August 3-5：£11 (£9)

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ollaborating with the Prize-winning Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon, four real-life brothers take to the stage in a moving story of memories and mangos. The result is a smart serving of fresh, engaging dance by a young Taiwanese company ready to take on the world. Founded in 2011, Chang produces only one work per year. Bon 4 Bon is the first in which the siblings perform together using material that arose from improvisations centred round their individual experiences of being related. Together they’ve concocted a touching, humorous look at the slippery rhythms and habitual behaviours of family.

Choreographer：Eyal Dadon Company Manager / Perfomer：Chien-Hao Chang Artistic Director / Performer：Chien-Chih Chang Resident Artist / Performer： Chien-Kuei Chang Resident Artist / Performer：Ho-Chien Chang Lighting Designer / Technical coordinator：Tze-Yu Lai Clothing Designer：Po-Chen Lin Graphic Designer：Eason Chiu Photographer：Wei-Sheng Chen Administrator：Hsin-Yi Tsai PR：Silver Yee

Ages 8+ August 3-5：£11 (£9)

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aiwan’s premier indigenous dance-theatre company presents a richly patterned, open-hearted performance in which private feelings are on the verge of being made public. Both physically and emotionally charged, Tjimur’s work embraces a bounty of intoxicating, artfully expressed sensations.

Working in close collaboration with the company’s founding artistic director Ljuzem Madiljin, in-house choreographer (and sibling) Baru Madiljin and three dynamic dancers bring ancient Paiwan cultural traditions up to date. They know every human heart holds profound secrets. Their appealing, fine-tuned awareness lends the unique personal and tribal impulses of Varhung a distinctly universal resonance.

Artistic Director：Ljuzem Madiljin Choreographer：Baru Madiljin Administrative Manager：Shu-Ting Chiu International Affairs Coordinator：I-Hsuan Li Performer：Ching-Hao Yang Performer：Ljaucu Tapurakac Performer：Tzu-En Meng Technical Director / Light Board Operator：Yin-Ping Li

Hsin-Yi Tsai (Administrator)

E：hsinyitsai0603@gmail.com https://twitter.com/chang_dance

I-Hsuan Li (International Affairs Coordinator) E：tjimur@gamil.com https://www.tjimur.com