With simple stage design and controversial issue to explore human vice, migrant and refugee crisis, struggle for power, ethnic conflict, gender equality, social issue nowadays, this theatre production through the inferior insect-cockroach, to reveal the hidden and unconscious bias in everyday life.
The premier in Taiwan has won positive review, “Surprised that Sun Son Theatre had made a new breakthrough”, “very complete narration, radical issue, full of humour, the audience fall into the trap”. Cockroach is common noticed insect and killed in Taiwan household. We used real and alive cockroaches in the show, it was a breakthrough and terrifying theatre experience.
The show is surrounds with foul game and the ring of dark violence! To think of a cockroach, one can discover many things. When I think of the things that I hate most, I become angry. But when I started to inspect, the feelings of hatred started to change. A killing game is camouflage into a fancy entertainment. “The Circus of Exclusion” presents the show with confrontation and deformity. Beneath the show is a war of survival, violence and discrimination. From the inferior insect, together we examine what are human rights.
The show at first is a chaos, the next is condemn, the twist and turn of strong emotion to reverse thinking.
“Crossing the Line” start with a circus of exclusion, when the audience enter the theatre, they are asked to draw a white or black wrist band out of a box to represent which colour’s group they will be in. At first the actors will guide the audience to admit that the one colour is a bad colour. They are invited to participate in an unfair game between two groups; the audiences are inside a circus themselves. After the circus, there is a turning point, the actors start to condemn each other about racism, discrimination, violence, and they try to escape, reexamine our identity and bias.
In Taiwan premier, we used 12000 cockroaches in the show and put under the audience seats, at the end of the show, while an actor play the piano with full emotion, the other actors pull out the transparent box full of cockroaches from the audience seat, this scene created the most unforgettable image in audience minds.
“Crossing the Line” has veteran and young actors, in the show they will play live piano, guitar and percussion music, with physical theatre and interact with the audience to present the show. The show depicts a deep dark fear and absurdities, together with the audience we rethink, reexamine the feelings of hatred and the roots of all forms of violence.
The premier in Taiwan has won positive review, “Surprised that Sun Son Theatre had made a new breakthrough”, “very complete narration, radical issue, full of humour, the audience fall into the trap”. Cockroach is common noticed insect and killed in Taiwan household. We used real and alive cockroaches in the show, it was a breakthrough and terrifying theatre experience.
The show is surrounds with foul game and the ring of dark violence! To think of a cockroach, one can discover many things. When I think of the things that I hate most, I become angry. But when I started to inspect, the feelings of hatred started to change. A killing game is camouflage into a fancy entertainment. “The Circus of Exclusion” presents the show with confrontation and deformity. Beneath the show is a war of survival, violence and discrimination. From the inferior insect, together we examine what are human rights.
The show at first is a chaos, the next is condemn, the twist and turn of strong emotion to reverse thinking.
“Crossing the Line” start with a circus of exclusion, when the audience enter the theatre, they are asked to draw a white or black wrist band out of a box to represent which colour’s group they will be in. At first the actors will guide the audience to admit that the one colour is a bad colour. They are invited to participate in an unfair game between two groups; the audiences are inside a circus themselves. After the circus, there is a turning point, the actors start to condemn each other about racism, discrimination, violence, and they try to escape, reexamine our identity and bias.
In Taiwan premier, we used 12000 cockroaches in the show and put under the audience seats, at the end of the show, while an actor play the piano with full emotion, the other actors pull out the transparent box full of cockroaches from the audience seat, this scene created the most unforgettable image in audience minds.
“Crossing the Line” has veteran and young actors, in the show they will play live piano, guitar and percussion music, with physical theatre and interact with the audience to present the show. The show depicts a deep dark fear and absurdities, together with the audience we rethink, reexamine the feelings of hatred and the roots of all forms of violence.
Premier：26-28 April 2019 at Sun Son Tamsui Black Box Theatre
Production team
Producer／Leading director：Leonson Ng
Actor：Chuang Hui Yun, Low Pei Fen, Ng Cheng Han
Piano score composer：Chen Pei Jun
Lighting Design：Chou Ya Wen
Scenography：Lee Shu Ming
Costume Design：Tan Meng Chit
Make Up：Hsieh Po Sheng
Production team
Producer／Leading director：Leonson Ng
Actor：Chuang Hui Yun, Low Pei Fen, Ng Cheng Han
Piano score composer：Chen Pei Jun
Lighting Design：Chou Ya Wen
Scenography：Lee Shu Ming
Costume Design：Tan Meng Chit
Make Up：Hsieh Po Sheng
