summer cool night
A
Midsummer
Night's
Chat
2011｜Xiao Theater Art Space
2013｜Tokyo International Theater Festival, Japan
2013｜Hong Kong Fringe Folk Culture Festival
Lanterns flickered, and a white veiled room took center stage. Storytellers paced back and forth among the audience, recalling the experience of seeing ghosts. A single woman who witnessed repeated jumps from a former tenant, an elementary school student who talked to her underworld grandmother every day, a mother who found her daughter with unknown bruises every day…
Why do ghosts exist? Why do ghost stories always evoke strong emotions in listeners—whether it be curiosity, fear, guilt, or resistance? "Summer Cool Night Talk" is presented in the urban life where interpersonal relationships are alienated and indifferent. After encountering setbacks, people often cannot find an outlet to express themselves, and must find other ways to escape the painful and helpless reality. They pin their hopes on invisible ghosts, and ghosts also become concrete images of people's desires and obsessions. Although ghosts are discussed in the play, the concern is how living people treat their own lives.
The sound of steps at midnight hallway, a lady's obsessive love for past lover, a spirit trapped in the suicidal scene repeating the act, a mother guilty for her abortion, is she revenged by the infant ghost, or is she not relieved of her buried guilt? The midnight greeting of a deceased family, a window left open every morning, who is hiding behind? A Midsummer Night's Chat is composed of many ghost stories, alongside the multilayered perspectives of technological images, ushering the audience into the most terrible tableaus of supernatural encounters.
summer cool night
A
Midsummer
Night's
Chat 3:
STOP!
Bus
: 3
STOP! Bus
2015｜
Xinbeitou MRT Station → Beitou → Beitou MRT Station
In 2015, the Taipei Arts Festival commissioned the production of "Summer Cool Night 3: STOP! Bus", adding elements of escape room, imprisoning the audience in the car for an unknown journey. The audience must participate in the process of story development. Through the interactive process of finding clues and solving puzzles, the truth behind the story can be revealed, and the entire journey can be completed.
The play uses the bus as the vehicle, and the audience will follow the characters to start a journey of memory. Every place where they get off the bus has a deep connection with them, so that the monuments are no longer just traces of the years and ancient legends, but a leap in The living flesh and blood on the paper; and it is matched with the secret room to solve the puzzle, allowing the audience to gradually unravel the story of the character through interaction. As the audience decrypts, the plot becomes more and more clear, and the three seemingly unrelated people slowly weave the story. the whole picture.
Help! Trapped in a nightmarish city, how can one escape the galloping bus?
A bus disappeared during its last city tour around Taipei; three strangers lead it to the underworld. Escaping clues are provided, but if they remain unsolved during the next hour, all passengers would be led into the darkness, and become yet another urban legend. "Stop! Bus", the 3rd episode of "A Midsummer Night's Chat", combines the current fashion of immersive theatre, and the hit escaping game in Taiwan, provides a unique experience with escaping game and ghost stories.
summer cool night
A
Midsummer
Night's
Chat 4:
Road
at Night
4:
dark road
2016｜
Wuyuan Cultural Center, Fengshen Temple
Ding Zhong's official residence, Temple of Five Concubines
Based on the stories of the victims of the February 28 Incident, the play collects literary creations and poems from the February 28 and later White Terrorist periods, as well as the life history of the victims, as well as the strange stories of historical sites in Tainan, which are combined into this performance. text. And through the concept of immersive theater combined with the escape room game, the audience can be more active and grasp the direction and context of the development of the story. The bus is used as the vehicle, and the audience will follow the characters to start a journey of memory. Every place they get off the bus has a deep connection with them, so that the monuments are no longer just traces of the years and ancient legends, but leaps on paper. Living flesh and blood; and with the secret room puzzle solving, allowing the audience to gradually unravel the story of the characters through interaction. As the audience deciphers, the plot becomes more and more clear, and seemingly unrelated ghosts slowly weave the whole picture of the story. .
2016 Tainan Arts Festival "A Midsummer Night's Chat4: Road at Night", in addition to Tainan local legends, part of the story is based on events from 228, and experience forming the script, presented as ghost stories, from the ghosts of the dead to the symbols of authority, ghosts that break into doors late at night to take away loved ones, so that those who cannot face and talk about bodies and shapes, turn into a kind of devil, shuttling back into different stories and spaces.
The performance contains a total of two routes, a total of six stories, in Wu Garden, Ding Zhong Official Residence, Fengshen Temple, Temple of the Five Concubines 4 historical attractions. Basing “integrity” as the concept throughout the play, talking about the five princesses who stubbornly persisted in loyalty, about Mother of Lightning illuminating the Earth to distinguish right and wrong, and then to the innocent victims of the 228 events who stood up for justice, in order to each pursue justice by sacrificing their lives and their undying courage.
summer cool night
A
Midsummer
Night's
Chat 5:
The Gap
5: Gap
2017｜
Tangji Cultural Park B warehouse,
Xiao Theater Art Space, Huajiang House
The content of the story of this play is based on urban anecdotes, referring to the urban anecdotes and character history of Wanhua Huajiang's entire residence, based on ghost stories, re-telling the story belonging to the whole residence of Huajiang, and connecting it with the circular flyover in the whole residence of Huajiang. In the devious building space, we move through the sky bridge, the passage of stairs up and down and seven different spaces, passing stories one after another hidden in the building, so that everyone can re-understand this forgotten space. During the performance, the audience is divided into three groups. Only the audience map and clues are provided. The audience will go to the designated location and visit three different routes. Through watching the play, solving puzzles, and visiting the space, the audience can enjoy different sensory enjoyment.
summer cool night
A
Midsummer
Night's
Chat 6:
The
Gap II
6:
gap two
2018｜
Xiao Theater Arts and Culture Space
Continuing last year's production of "Summer Cool Night Talk 5: Gap", the creation is based on the whole house of Huajiang, combined with ghost stories and secret rooms to solve puzzles, and has close contact and interaction with the audience. The story is chosen to be performed in a room in the whole house. It uses the interlacing of time and space to narrate the stories of the residents in the same room at different times, and uses "faith" as the running point, starting from the "Xia Tian Palace" in the story, because Out of control beliefs lead to the succession of different time and space, the people living here gradually fall into madness in their own suppressed obsessions, and eventually become manipulated ghosts and ghosts, acting as a feline for them, transforming into an inescapable invisible spirit, only Faith can escape.
