Taiwan Season - 2018 REVIEWS

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'Varhung – Heart to Heart is an absolute tour de force and an intensely pleasureable experience.' - The British Theatre Guide

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

'The four brothers are mesmerising dancers in their own right, and a formidable ensemble.' - The Outlier Scotland

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'Heart to Heart's Varhung is a rewarding harves' - London Evening Standard

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home

'Delusion of Home is a show that fairly explodes with life and ideas, featuring powerful live music on traditional instruments and a range of raw, memorable performances from a actors Ying-Ta Chen, Pen-Chieh Yu and Cheng-Ping Hsu. Our Theatre company have crossed with terrific energy, creativity and goodwill, on their journey to be in Edinburgh this year. ' - The Scotsman

✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home

'This multiform production from Taiwan’s Our Theatre lasts only 50 minutes, but it manages to squeeze in references to everything from Shakespeare to Taoist funeral ceremonies in its portrayal of the declining communities of the country’s southern coastline.' - The TIMES

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

‘Bon 4 Bon manages to create its own heady rush as the quartet explore their family’s dynamics in a work that is as sweet as their favourite fruit.’ - The Guardian

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Once Upon a Daydream

'It’s a delight to see such unique, exciting theatre from Taiwan reaching UK audiences.' - Three Weeks Edinburgh

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Once Upon a Daydream

'The acting is exaggerated and lively, and accompanied by great colourful animations ...Don’t be in any doubt that it is suitable for the whole family. It’s not high-tech but it doesn’t need to be. Just take along a dash of imagination.' - Seeing Dance

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home

‘It’s a skill seen rarely on the Fringe, certainly to this level... the themes of exile and migration, poverty and homelessness, life and death, are universal. I walked away deeply moved.‘ - Seeing Dance

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

'Individually they are a joy to watch, dancers out of the top drawer but for just how well they move as one, look out for an ensemble section about 20 minutes in that is performed as together as anyone could wish to hope for.' - Seeing Dance

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'Even more remarkable is the physical and emotional levels of the incredibly committed performers. For the full fifty minutes, Varhung is non-stop, the score following the power of the choreography as it becomes increasingly percussive.' - Seeing Dance

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SHOW -

Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'This dance performance expresses humanity and the inspiration of this special culture as a starting point is genius. It’s mesmerizing. This is fine work, fine dance, fine visual storytelling. Highly Recommended!' - Fringe Review

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

'The four brothers have an easy and fluid dance style and their connection with one another and relationships are beautifully delineated in movement, form and dialogue.' - EdinburghGuide.com

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Once Upon a Daydream

'The upbeat rhythm of the live percussion band, accompanied by synthesized music, add jollity throughout the production.........The musician's expressive faces impress, and the superb, imaginative animation is doubly impressive for being hand-drawn.' - Broadway Baby

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

'Sometimes tender, sometimes fierce, this is a beautifully constructed evocation of brotherly love.' - The List

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

The songs are beautiful and haunting and the three dancers give a virtuoso performance in what may be one of the most unique physical and aural performances at the Fringe this year. - the wee Review

✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home

A densely layered and immersive multimedia work, monologues from an itinerant homeless man and an oyster farmer are overlaid with lyrical slide projections of crumbling coastal ruins, interviews with Taoist priests and the occasional interjection from the cosmos.

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'Varhung - Heart to Heart is dance that means something vital to its own culture, and also something rather special to us.' - The Herald

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

"The biggest treat of all at Dance Base... it has a mesmerising quality that borders on hypnotic. " - Kelly Apter, The Scotsman

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

'Great skill, technique and a finely tuned sensibility' - Broadway Baby

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

’The Chang brothers herald a bright new future for dance at the Fringe with their innovative and highly entertaining performance.‘ - the wee Review

RECOMMENDED SHOW- Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

‘The dance quality is very good throughout and might benefit from being a tad more emotive... This show is Recommended’ – go see! - Fringe Review

✮✮✮ Taiwan Season:Once Upon A Daydream

'Once Upon a Daydream is very well choreographed, with the lead performer interacting with the projections and never missing a beat. ' - The wee REVIEW

✮✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

'Varhung- Heart to Heart will touch your heart.' - Broadway Baby

✮✮✮✮ Taiwan Season:Once Upon A Daydream

'Brightly coloured and bizarre, this Taiwanese live-action cartoon becomes surprisingly touching.' - Fest

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