Chia-Ming Wang and His Popular Culture Trilogy
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Tzu-Han, Chi
Abstract
Chia-Ming, Wang and His Popular Culture Trilogy Abstract Chia-Ming Wang, the director of Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group, based his theatre series Popular Culture Trilogy on Taiwanese everyday life. Using “decade” as the main creative concept, Chia-Ming’s Trilogy divides Taiwan’s modern history into three parts, 1970s, 1980, and 1990s. The first episode Michael Jackson-Back to the 80’s focuses on entertainment and parody, trying to reproduce the mentality of Taiwan society from the period of martial law to the period after lifting the martial law. The second episode Bruce Lee-Welcome to the 70’s is a mythological fable dealing with nationality imagination. The third episode SMAP X SMAP-In love with the 90’s ironically plays the duality between image and theatre. Bearing the structure commonly seen in Japanese drama, SMAP X SMAP-in love with the 90’s uses a new kind of spoken language mixed with both Taiwanese and Japanese, sometimes together with English, forcing the audience to rely on subtitles to understand the meaning of the performance. Popular Culture Trilogy is the only series of Chia-Ming, Wang so far, which provides a great opportunity for those interested in Chia-Ming’s works to look into his idea about history, directing style and creation concepts. The article aims at discussing the connections between Taiwan historical facts and the trilogy of theatre works, and provides plenty of personal views about the important director of Taiwanese modern theatre.
Subjects
Chia-Ming, Wang
Popular Culture Trilogy
Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group
Popular Culture History
Jean Baudrillard.
Type
thesis
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