Patron:Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Organizer:Sun Son Theatre
Sponsor:Taipei City Government Department of Cultural Affairs, National Culture and Arts Foundation
Acknowledgement:Individual donors support of Sun Son Theatre and Bamboo Curtain Studio
"STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES"
Introduction:
Sun Son Theatre December upcoming new theatre production“Stupid is as stupid does”is adapted from the three famous Chinese mythology-Jingwei Filling the Sea, Yugong moving the mountain and Kua Fu Chasing the Sun.
FILLING THE SEA
A group of people on a ship to sail to the country where they could start their new life. Among them there is a brave young girl, who promised her family that one day she will bring her family to a better place. Unfortunately the ship capsized and no one survived, the girl lost her life to the merciless sea. After she died, she turned into a bird with red claws and a white beak, vowing to fill up the sea. She would hold stones and tree branches with her beak and throw them into the sea, crying the sound of "jingwei, jingwei...", as if encouraging herself. She kept filling up the sea year after year without stop.
CHASING THE SUN
A fool, run as fast as the win, he fell in love with a girl. One day, the girl told him: “When the sun set, I will leave here and never come back”. The fool wished the girl would stay, he started chasing the Sun and never let the Sun set.
MOVING THE MOUNTAIN
There is a village, located between two high mountains. The village was once beautiful and great place to live in long long time ago, but due to some incident, the village people offended the mountain god, the god put a big rock blocked the village. Hence the village was gradually dying and became poor. Until a kid stand out and plan to move the mountain day by day, bit by bit.
About Sun Son Theatre
Sun Son Theatre is a unique contemporary theatre company that combines live music, physical movement and drama in in its productions. It has developed a theatre performance style that embraces many elements including percussion music, musical instruments from all over the world, shadow play, masks, puppet show, multimedia, and vocal singing. Sun Son Theatre performers are able to multi-task, playing multiple roles in a performance that can include acting, dancing, singing and playing various kinds of musical instruments. The company has participated in many international festivals. In 2017, the company won Summerhall Lustrum Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Artistic Director:NG Chong Leong
Director:CHANG Wei Loy
Music Compose:LOW Pei Fen
Lighting Design:CHOU Ya Wen
Set Design:CHANG Wei Loy