OFF THE CHORES

 "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won."--Simone de Beauvoir.
 
“Off The Chores” presents the sweet and sour moment of the housewives’ daily routines. The performance is focus on housewife daily chores which include cleaning, cooking, washing and challenging with time and family. We combined with physical movement and live music, and we wish to rethink the gender roles in a family. The strength of housewives is hidden within their endurance and tolerance, the beauty of housewives is hidden within the details, the future of housewives is hidden in a woman daily routine.

Artistic Director and Coordinator：Ng Chong Leong
Percussion and Physical Movement Choreography：Low Pei Fen
Creator and Performer：Low Pei Fen, Liu Wan Chun, Chuang Hui Yun
Music Composer and Live music：Ivan Alberto Flores Moran, Chang Wei Loy, Lee Shu Ming, Chen Zi Yin
Stage Designer：Chang Wei Loy
Lighting Designer：Chou Ya Wen
Graphic Designer：Chuang Hui Yun
Administrator：Hung Hsuan
Photograph：LEE Yu Han(Colour), Chen You De (Black and white)

Premiere：28-30 AUG 2015 Bamboo Curtain Studio 12 Pillars
6 MAY 2017 Tainan Arts Festival Xin Hua Auditorium
26-28 MAY 2017 National Theatre Experimental Theatre
​5 MAY 2018 Coming Soon at Xin Zhu Cultural Bureau Auditorium