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UTOPIAZOO: The Bubbletea Incident
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UTOPIAZOO: The Bubbletea Incident

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Mask／70mins

Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director: Pei-Yu Shih

Premiere
9 Jul. 2022 Weiwuying Children’s Festival 
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Playhouse

Integration is a very complicated issue in the current multicultural society. Ranging from large groups such as ethnic and cultural groups to small groups in schools and companies, we face the problem of “how to get along” every day. In what ways should we coexist in all these different “relationships”? How should we tolerate, consider, and understand?

Through a fable of two ethnic groups living together, this play hopes to provide a platform for parents and children to hold discussions, whether superficially or in-depth. A child’s world may be relatively simple, but the understanding of “individual and group” and “minority and majority” is a very important experience in their growth and development.

The armadillo father and son enjoyed the exhibition “The Bubble Tea Incident”, which displayed many odd objects, including housing models of the “New Utopia” residential area, huge bags, huge muzzles, some slideshows, and documentaries. It seemed like the incidents that happened before Little Armadillo was born were related to Father Armadillo. Little Armadillo thought his father’s “legendary animal friends” were bad people, but unexpectedly, Father Armadillo told a different version of the history.

After fleeing from the natural disaster, the homeless Utopia Zoo clan arrived at the Armadillo Kingdom and pleaded for the King to take them in. In order to gain permanent residency, they tried hard to express their goodwill, hoping to impress the King. In return, the King also responded kindly and offered them jobs. However, to ensure the safety of the people of the Armadillo Kingdom, the Utopia Zoo clan has to follow some “rules.” Everything seemed to end up being perfect until an incident happened in front of the bubble tea shop. One day, after the Utopia Zoo clan finished their grueling day’s work, they thought of having a cup of the sweet bubble tea to soothe their weariness. However, a misunderstanding panicked the people of the Armadillo Kingdom, which eventually lead to the clan’s death…

The Dark Light
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The Dark Light

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Mask／50mins 

Director：Larry Reed, Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator&Musician：Hsiang hao Hsu
Text： Tang-yu LIN 

Premiere
20-21 Apr. 2019 NTT-TIFA National Taichung Theater Playhouse

A boy, traumatized after witnessing the death of his parents, won’t talk or eat. His grandfather is worried and does not know what to do. The boy crawls into a world of fantasy where he comes across friends and people he misses, as well as scary things.He doesn’t want to face reality, but he can’t escape it forever. Flying Group Theatre, which specializes in puppetry, collaborates with Larry Reed, a trailblazer in the contemporary shadow theatre field, to create this warm and moving production that incorporates shadow theater and black light techniques, as well as table-top puppets, masked puppets and live actors.

NSO Forever Tale—The Mice War
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NSO Forever Tale—The Mice War

DAVID CHESKY: The Mice War

The Mice War Returns! When David Chesky’s opera for children, The Mice War, was presented at the Experimental Theater in Taipei in 2009, it was described by Zhao Ziqiang as “a wonderful, imaginative journey.” And indeed it is. In The Mice War, American composer David Chesky ̶ pianist, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the audiophile label Chesky Records ̶ relates the story of a peaceful mouse named Albert who is caught up in an absurd war between Blue Mice, who eat pink cheese and red mice who eat yellow cheese. This 80-minute stage work, presented in Mandarin here in Taipei, has also been seen to huge success in Polish, English, Italian and Portuguese. Chesky’s association with the NSO goes back to the 2008-2009 season, when he was the orchestra’s composer-in-residence.

IN-FANG CHANG, conductor
Pei-Yu SHIH, stage director
Lien-Chi HUANG, stage design
Yuling LIN, costume design
Tian-Hong WANG, lighting design
Cheng-Yuan WANG, projection design
Vera Hui-pin Hsu, répétiteur

BOREN CHENG, narrator&Tashi
Jo-Pei Weng, Albert
Alfred Chen, General Kan
Pallas Lai, Bagi
FLYING GROUP THEATRE
Hao-Tun Teng, Violin
Yi-Jung Su, Double bass
Chika Miyazaki, Flute
May-Lin Ju, Clarinet
Kai –Yu Jian, Bassoon
Loo-Kit Chong, Trumpet
Ting-Chuan Chen、Pi-Tzu Yang, Percussion
Shannon Chieh, Harp

organizer
National Symphony Orchestra (NSO)

Utopiazoo
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Utopiazoo

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Mask／70mins

Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director：Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator：Ghislaine Herbéra

Premiere
17-19 Nov. 2017 Taipei  Wellspring Theater

A combination of puppetry, mask and shadow theatre
Utopiazoo has us face the ongoing refugee crisis with animal fables
And embrace the diversity of the world through theatre arts

 All stories begin with “Once upon a time”. However, the story Utopiazoo starts with a little horse . The little horse left its hometown, wandered far away to a valley on its own. As its arrival to the valley ,It disturbed the daily life of the resident animals ,thus the little horse was treated with hostility in the group. As a natural disaster left the animals displaced , they escaped from the disaster, but then found themselves facing the issue of integration as they arrived in a foreign environment.

The Heart of Universe
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The Heart of Universe

Actor + Puppets/Non-verbal/50mins

Text／Director：Shia Shia

Premiere
2017/9/2 Kaohsiung．TaKaoBooks
2017/9/8-10 Taipei．Reykjavik Lab

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet .” Stephen Hawking

How long haven’t you looked upon the stars?
How long haven’t you  admired the pretty, glowing moon? 

The hustle and bustle of the city
Distracted us by the dazzling daily life
Thus we forgot
Forgot the tranquil sky upon the city lights
Where the stars , been shimmering hundreds of millions of years
hold the heart of universe

 Count to 3 , Let’s travel to outer space.

Vive La Vie
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Vive La Vie

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Live Music

Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director: Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator: Ghislaine Herbéra
Musician: Yu-Jun Wang

A combination of concert, drama and exhibition
Flying Group Theatre collaborates with L’est et l’Ouest ,Double Time Music
And the BCBF International Illustration Award winning illustrator Ghislaine Herbéra

To create the performance and exhibition Viva La Vie,
It’s a present  for all of  you
Wish you all enjoy the gift
The gift about the sweetness of life  

【Concert】 11/28
Starts with the theme “Viva La Vie”
The concert has us trace back to the three parts of the A Sleep and a Forgetting trilogy. The Birth, The Day of Growing up and La Disparition
The progress of growing up is colorful
Let us embrace the journey of life 

【Theatre: Le jour de grandir】12/4-12/6，12/19-12/20
The little boy and the little girl are good friends. They start their journey to find the day of ‘growing up’. First, they have to pass through a forest. During the journey, they meet a mermaid, a bird fisher, a person who can transform between male and female…and the king of the forest. In this fantastic adventure, they are looking and searching for the day of ‘growing up’. Where is the day of ‘growing up’? Does that day exist?

【Theatre：La Disparition】12/5-12/6，12/11-12/13
Lost objects may be found, but what if the people who “disappear”? According to the legend, the great hollow in the thousand-year-old tree is the entrance to the other world. One day, the sister took her brother to the tree.  Inside the old tree hollow, they met the Dragon King and Grandmother Fox. “Death is a marriage to the land, from which new life is born”, said Grandmother Fox. Wandering inside the great hollow within the tree, where will they be leading to as the final destination of their adventure?

【Theatre：La Naissance】12/12-12/13，12/18-12/20
Long time ago, when I was in my Mum’s belly, I had a lot of dreams. For most of them I’ve forgotten, only this one…A little girl had found an egg in a Whale’s belly. She wanted to keep this egg, but was afraid that it would die. So she decided to look for its mother. On her journey, she met Seagull Mother, Hippocampus Couple, and Clown fish Couple. But neither of them were its parents. While the egg became bigger and bigger. A Giant was burn from it. He continued to grow up. And became the Sky, the Earth, and the World…The little girl woke up, finally. She decided to say farewell to the Whale.And looked to her own Birth.

【Exhibition：Treasured Fragment】11/28-12/20
Creator：Pei-Yu Shih,Carrie Ou

Beginning with birth and end up with death
Life is like a process between getting up and falling asleep
Within a blink of eye
What was left in this journey of life?

Into the Ocean
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Into the Ocean

Actor +Puppets+Shadows／No Language／50mins 

Text／Director：Shiah Shiah

Premiere
2015/8/15-9/6
Hualien Chinan National Forest Recreation Area Hualien Mennonite Christian Hospital
Taipei Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre
Kaohsiung National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Weiwuying 281 Exhibition
Keelung Island Experimental Theater

How vast the sea, how vast our life should be; how deep the sea, the world loves us how deep. In the deep and wide ocean, contains many of our secret is still unknown, in the sea and shore of the overlap in the gently sung.

Gift Wrapping
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Gift Wrapping

Installation exhibition

04 Apr. – 14 Sep. 2014  
Taipei Fine Arts Museum Children’s Art Education Center

17 Mar. – 14 May. 2017
Tainan Xinying Cultural Center
 

Every memory is a gift.
We fold them neatly and place them in a suitcase.
And we take them with us.
When we’re tired, we open the suitcase.
Then we unfold our memories, and find happiness within.

Flying Group Theatre created this new work which features an old, over-sized suitcase symbolizing a richly lived life. The suitcase is filled with treasured memories in the form of scenes of birth, old age,illness and death, which provides constancy for the traveler by protecting his most cherished possessions. Clothing in the suitcase seems to be labeled with fragments of a life, and layer upon layer of items are strung together to form a life’s many circumstances.

La Disparition
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La Disparition

【For you, my children】
A Sleep and a Forgetting Part III.《La Disparition》

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows + Mask + Live Music／50mins
Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director: Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator: Ghislaine Herbéra
Musician: Yu-Jun Wang

Production：L’ EST et L’ OUEST、Flying Group Theatre

Premiere
1-3 Mar. 2013 TIFA NATIONAL THEATRE Experimental Theatre ,Taipei
29-31 Oct. 2013 Théâtre Massalia, Marseille

Lost objects may be found, but what if the people who “disappear”?According to the legend, the great hollow in the thousand-year-old tree is the entrance to the other world. One day, the sister took her brother to the tree. Inside the old tree hollow, they met the Dragon King and Grandmother Fox. “Death is a marriage to the land, from which new life is born”, said Grandmother Fox. Wandering inside the great hollow within the tree, where will they be leading to as the final destination of their adventure?

Le Jour de Garndir
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Le Jour de Garndir

 【For you, my children】
A Sleep and a Forgetting Part II
 《le jour de garndir》 

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Live Music／50mins 

Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director: Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator: Ghislaine Herbéra
Musician: Yu-Jun Wang

Production：L’ EST et L’ OUEST、Flying Group Theatre

Premiere
19-9 Aug. 2012 Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Taipei
24-22 Jan. 2013 Théâtre Massalia , Marseille

2023Tour Schedule
11-13 Aug. 2023  Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre
19 Aug. 2023 Yuanlin Performance Hall Experimental Theatre
23-24 Sep. Penghu Performance Hall 

The little boy and the little girl are good friends. They start their journey to find the day of ‘growing up’. First, they have to pass through a forest. During the journey, they meet a mermaid, a bird fisher, a person who can transform between male and female…and the king of the forest. In this fantastic adventure, they are looking and searching for the day of ‘growing up’. Where is the day of ‘growing up’? Does that day really exist?

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