TAIWAN SEASON 2018
In 2018 the Taiwan Season returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a fifth consecutive year with some of the best live performances being made on the island today. Drawn from an open call to practitioners of all art forms in Taiwan, and carefully curated by the key Fringe venues Dance Base and Summerhall, the season spotlights dance and theatre via a quartet of meaningful and uniquely entertaining productions.
In Bon 4 Bon four real-life brothers take to the stage in a fresh, literally moving story of memories and mangos.
Studio 3 - Dance Base
Ancient cultural practices receive a dynamic and sensitive new spin in the evocative dance trio Varhung – Heart to Heart .
Studio 1 - Dance Base
The Delusion of Home is a strong, original documentary-style depiction of local contemporary life refracted through one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
Tech Cube 0 - Summerhall
In Once Upon a Daydream a bouncy, colourful but lonely single female blurs the line between real-life and her highly active imagination.
Tech Cube 0 - Summerhall
Taiwan Season 2018 warmly invites audiences to experience a range of ideas, emotions and flavours in a hand-picked sampling of some the most stimulating contemporary performances from Taiwan. Whether the tone is playful or dramatic, and based in bubbly fantasy or stark reality, these four shows embrace a gamut of creative impulses, varied settings and complex themes: urban and rural, tradition and modernity, the individual and society, public and private, home and homelessness...