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Lagan (2013)
The Pantomime
Summary

Shang Orientheatre works to allow the audience to truly understand the spirit of pantomime and help them to appreciate the beauty of life through the art of pantomime.

 

Through the life experiences of different characters, Lagan presents the humour of living in the present world.


Shang Orientheatre transcends the stage drama and stabilises the physical emotion of dance performance. Mime is a performing art born of mimicry, the source of the development of contemporary civilisation from the primitive human observation and imitation of one another; it is also the single way in which infants learn to survive instinctively.


Lagan is the new work by Sun Li-Tsuei, which tells the story of a floating world where old people, children, men and women exist, like a fantasy world, and they are interdependent; they do not need to use words, but only eyes, movements and gestures to understand each other. The Floating World features urban hills, mountain fairy trails, the eyes of a rose, storms, islands, silver stars, oceans and seas. Sun Lai Chui's portrayal of a homeless woman and street people leads to the reunion and separation of the noblewoman Guo Yin Xiang and her young lover Chen Shao Qi, as well as Huang Hao Guang's family, conveying a penetrating humour through the worldly perspective of the characters and their life experiences across the world.
 

The pantomime is a different way of performing time and language, transcending the walls of communication and It goes beyond the walls of communication to the heart.
    

There are no words. You know what you are talking about. 
Already too much to say, too much to hear, this time only with the body.
We are all phantoms in the water... in the countless ripples of the water... in the ripples of the ripples... in the ripples of the ripples. In the night of the city, the stars shine without desire, without fear, at the other end of the solar system.

Credits

Directing choregraphy : Sun Li-Tsuei

Stage & props designer : Grant Bailey

Costume designer : Chen Shaoqi

Actors : Kwok Yin-Heung / Wong Ho-Kwong / Chen Shaoqi

Musicians : Joan Pipkin (Cello) / Lorenzo Goehr (Piano) / Zhou Xian-Wei (Flute)

Production : Patrice Delmotte

Photography : David Thompson

Sponsors

Ministry of Culture - Taiwan 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan

"MYSTICAL UNIVERSE, CELESTIAL AESTHETICS"

"The human soul is slowly unravelled, from moments of doubt to transcendental elation, and is reflected on the artist's body like physical symptoms. "

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