Description

Target Audience: All ages and family

Duration: 90 minutes

Synopsis 

4 Different solo puppet performances. Taking place in different parts of the space. The audiences will move from one performance to another. 

Hungry Mouse In The House by Wang Hua Ching, from Taiwan.

Duration: 20 mins

Wu Dong Dong Adventure Playground by Chow Hiu Ma from Hong Kong.

Duration: 20 mins

Good For You by Tang Beier from Malaysia

Duration: 20 mins

Kangaroo Mama Wakes Up by Meng-Ju YU from Taiwan

Duration: 15 mins

Premiered in July 2024 as part of Lize Puppet Arts Colony, International Academy of Puppetry Arts.

Artist Profile

Wang Hua Ching, Graduated from the Department of Drama at the National Taiwan University of Arts, Hua Ching specializes in teaching puppet arts and puppet performance. Hua Ching has always loved performing but was afraid of the nakedness of performing on stage. It was not until she joined Puppet and Its Double Theater Company that she was introduced to puppetry, and realized that she would never be lonely again with puppets to accompany her on stage, and that they were the perfect balance in performance. She is fascinated by the magic of contemporary puppetry that gives life to inanimate objects! She loves the intentional blankness and poetic aesthetics of puppetry. It gives her a gentle strength to face the world.

Chow Hiu Man (Abbu) has been involved in stage production since 2014, starting with the production of stage props and gradually delving deeper into the field. It was 2016 when she first encountered puppetry coincidentally. The process of transforming various materials from inanimate objects into living entities filled her with both surprise and warmth. For her, being able to participate in and witness the birth of puppets, which are small yet full of emotion, serves as the driving force that motivates her to continue exploring.

Tang Beier, graduated from the Department of Arts Management, Shu-Te University. During the internship at Puppet and Its Double in 2020, Tang developed a passion for puppet management, storage and maintenance, believing that every puppet deserves to be stored comfortably, and that storage management and basic maintenance will allow puppets to have a longer lifespan. Currently working as a production assistant and puppet manager for the company, Tang has gradually expanded the role to that of a puppeteer in recent years. Tang fully embraced the spirit of a puppet manager by designing a mobile stage that extends from a suitcase in the first production. As the storage scene unfolds, the audience is drawn into the world of the play.

Meng-Ju YU, specializes in metal arts and mixed media sculpture. She graduated with a master’s degree in jewelry and metal arts from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of Arts. Since her creative practices often involve liveliness and mechanical structures, she began to pay attention to puppetry, which has similar characteristics. Since joining the Puppet and Its Double Theater Company in 2017, Yu has worked as a puppet designer and builder, inventing various puppetry techniques and mechanisms. Yu is also an instructor at the Lize International Academy of Puppet Arts. 

Ruan Yi (Director Mentor)

Yi Ruan graduated from the Department of Drama Creation and Application, National University of Tainan. Since 2014, he has been working as an actor, puppet designer, playwright, and director in the Puppet and Its Double Theater Company. In recent years, Ruan has turned his rich experience in puppetry into educational programs, adapting them to different occasions, such as community theater, giant puppet parade, puppet-making and puppeteering workshops, and creative workshops with young artists, to name a few. He is currently involved in the curriculum design of the Lize International Academy of Puppet Arts, planning a series of professional puppet artist cultivation and training programs.

Helmi Fita (Production , Technical Director)

Helmi Fita is a performer, director and lighting designer. He is currently employed full time with Puppet and Its Double Theatre, Taiwan, in 2019 as Lighting Designer/Technical Director and is presently curating AIR program and is the Foreign Affairs Officer with Lize Puppet Art Colony.

As a lighting designer, his recent works include: On the Edge of Reality by Puppet and Its Double Theatre, Taiwan German Tubingen Body Theatre Company which was presented as part of Taiwan International Festival of Art 2021 in Taichung Opera House; Masses by Wang Wei, which was presented by Songyan Lab, Creative Lab Project 2019 which won the Taishin Best Performing Arts Award in 2020.

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