Taiwan Village is the spark of the ideological intersection between famous Chinese dramatist Stan Lai and famous film and television producer Wang Wei-chung. It tells the story of military dependents’ villages with both joy and sorrow. Looking back on the time on Taiwan Island with tears and laughter, its extraordinary excellence makes it known as ‘the pinnacle of the drama stage in our era’. Taiwan Village uses drama to tell the epitome of an era and is listed as one of Stan Lai’s three most classic drama works along with A Dream Like a Dream and The Peach Blossom Land. On December 5, 2008, Taiwan Village had its world premiere in Taipei. In 2023, it will celebrate its 15th anniversary. In the past 15 years, some people have grown up, some have left, and some have always been there. The three male leads of the first generation, Chu Chung-heng, Feng Yi-kang, and Sung Hsiao-ching, as well as Hsu Yen-ling, Na Wei-hsun, Hsiao Cheng-wei, Liu Mei-yu, Tseng Hsin-yu, Cheng Shou-ming, Huang Hsiao-mao… After fifteen years of the play, they have also remained on this stage for fifteen years. As a treasure of this era, Taiwan Village is a work that director and screenwriter Stan Lai and Wang Wei-chung hope to record history with the theater. In 2020, the Taiwanese team of Taiwan Village could not come to Shanghai. Stan Lai, the artistic director of Theatre Above, and Ding Nai-chu, the CEO of Theatre Above, made a decision, hoping to produce the exclusive edition of Taiwan Village. Just like The Peach Blossom Land, it can be watched at Theatre Above at any time. The actor team of Stan Lai’s exclusive theater, Theatre Above Troupe, takes on the heavy responsibility and continues to pass on this treasured work of the times.
Plot The joys and sorrows, alternations, and bittersweet humor of three generations of residents and four families. This is a story that is so far away from us yet so close. In the turbulent era of 1949, there was such a group of people. They left their homeland and didn’t even have time to say goodbye to their relatives. They accidentally crossed the sea to Taiwan. Originally thinking it was just a short journey, but the day of returning home was far away. With deep-seated nostalgia, they took root in the village where they temporarily settled down. Different cultures also merged here because of them. These villages are now known as’military dependents’ villages’. Taiwan Village is writing history with the theater. It is like a living museum, displaying the great migration of ethnic groups, presenting the nostalgia story of the entire Chinese community, telling the powerful force of an era, and recording the lives of everyone who leaves their hometown and the refugees displaced around the world. Opening hours: From December 5th to December 15th, Tuesday to Sunday. The performance time and duration are subject to the actual situation on site.Taiwan Village Exclusive Edition in Shanghai
Taiwan Village is the spark of the ideological intersection between famous Chinese dramatist Stan Lai and famous film and television […]
