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1 Home and 2 with a Caterpillar

Premiere
2025 Taipei Children’s Arts Festival: 1 Home and 2 with a Caterpillar
Performance Dates & Times: July 3–6, 11:00 AM & 3:00 PM
Venue: Bopiliao Historic Block (No. 173, Kangding Rd., Wanhua District, Taipei City 108)
Format: Promenade Performance
※ This production is a commissioned work by the Taipei Performing Arts Center.

 

How old is a lightbulb?
When it goes out, how old is it?
And the light it once gave off—how old is that?

How old is a car?
A car speeding down the road—how old is it?
How old is the road that stretches into the distance?
And the distance itself—how old is it?

How old is the mother who gave birth to me?
How old is a gentle mother?
Ah, but when she’s angry—how old does she become…?

★ Adapted from poet Shiah Shiah’s picture-book poem How Old Is an Apple?
★ Blending light, shadow, and sound to re-create the enchanting details of childhood

Do we measure time through addition, or through subtraction?
And how many stories about time can a home contain?

1 Home and 2 with a Caterpillar is inspired by poet Shiah Shiah’s illustrated poem How Old Is an Apple? and transformed into a stage performance by puppetry and light-and-shadow artist Pei-Yu Shih, who employs everyday objects as puppets to bring verses to life.

The story follows three generations, weaving together their imaginations of time. A child counts age by addition, eager to grow up. A mother seeks balance between the old and the new. A grandmother reflects on the past through subtraction. Time brings change and accumulates the stories of home. In the theater, the caterpillar—an imagined figure—crosses generations, accompanying people at different stages of life and witnessing both the passage of time and the warmth of family.

This performance fuses puppetry, sound design, and installation art. Audiences move through various rooms inside Bopiliao Historic Block, listening to stories through headphones and experiencing how time takes on different forms within space. It is not only a play but also an immersive journey, inviting each audience member to uncover their own memories and emotions within the flow of time.

“Birthday, come quickly! I want to grow up fast!”
But Grandma sighs, “Why does time pass so quickly?”
Indeed—time feels different for everyone.

So let us put on headphones, step into different rooms, and listen to the memories hidden within a home. You just might discover a treasure of time that belongs to you.

Do we measure time through addition, or through subtraction?
And how many stories about time can a home contain?

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be Aged

Video, Live video, Objects, Puppets & Music / non verbal / 25 mins

Creator：SHIH Pei-yu 、OU Carrie
Music: YU Huan-Fu

Premiere
2022 Close to You Festival
Reserve the Area – A. Qingguang Area
Oct.15 sat.11:00.15:00.19:00
Oct.16 sun. 11:00.15:00

►Shih Pei-Yu, Carrie Ou, Yu Huan-Fu
►Video & Object     ►non verbal
►HOWSHOW Space（No. 36, Ln. 84, Sec. 3, Xinsheng N. Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City）

Liberating the sense of body intimacy through visual perception, observing the body to re-understand and rediscover yourself.

A big difference lies in the appearance between a younger body and a middle-aged body that has been in use for many years. How do you describe being middle-aged? The answer is complex. While it may not be 100% pessimistic, it could be a chance to regain the body intimacy after a thoughtful reflection on age.

Throughout the history of human beings, the young bodies are often praised in classical Western arts. What stories can a body tell if we get rid of the old concept?

Shih Pei-Yu
From 2000 to 2004, Shih had been working as a puppet designer and collaborating with many Taiwanese theatres. In 2004, she founded Flying Group Theatre which specializes in using light and shadow in its productions. With space, objects and puppets as its main medium, the Theatre aims to introduce objects/puppets into various fields of performing arts.

Carrie Ou
Majored in fine arts in university when he started to create video works. Since mid-1990, he has been devoted to numerous projects including video art, documentary and cross-genre theatre.He recently participated in dance, modern puppet theatre, Taiwanese glove puppetry with various roles such as visual artist and video creator. He has also been invited to international transdisciplinary art projects.

Yu Huan-Fu
Yu is an experienced theatre writer, director and music designer with a MA degree in Sociology from Soochow University. His work Tiantai Frog was premiered in 1998. Yu has been working with Sun-Shier Dance Theatre since 2000 and was invited to Korea for crossover performances in 2010. In 2014, he collaborated with Chang Hsiu-Ping on the choreography for Ethics. His directorial and stage design work The Prince from Golden Bough Theatre was nominated by Taishin Arts Award in the same year. PAR Magazine describes his music as “Always involves an unique ambience that brings the dancing piece to another level.

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The Greatest Thing Since The Bread

Puppets+Objects/30 minutes

Artist: Jia-Huei Chen、Yan-Ting Tzeng

Premiere
19-20 Oct. 2012 Close to You Festival Abby Rose Learning Studio,Taipei

Tour version
15 Nov. -16 Dec.
Lize Puppet Art Colony, Yilan
Ourwaygood Cafe, Taitung Guanshan
NTHU Books, Hsinchu
Ku House (源古本鋪）,Taoyuan Daxi

The Greatest Thing Since the Bread is an edible puppetry. Flour is the puppet, air, water, and imagination form its life. The show invites the audience to participate in the process from producing to performing. From a barren desert to a lively world after nourished by rain, forests bloom, animals appear, cities pop up and humans too.The creators pictured their vision for the environment through the flour-made set and puppets. 

 The Greatest Thing Since the Bread focuses on the theme of bread by using baking ingredients and equipment as set, props and even puppets. The show presents the process of baking, also the connection between the environment and the living creatures.  Hopes that one day civilization and primitiveness exist together, and humans and all other species live in harmony.

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A Suitcase of Taipei

A Suitcase of Taipei

Video, Live video, Objects, Puppets & Music / non verbal / 25 mins 

Creator：SHIH Pei-yu 、OU Carrie
Music: YU Huan-Fu

Premiere
13-15 Sep. 2019 Microfestival Fa. Versteeg,Groenmarkt, Dordrecht, Netherlands

Tour Schedule
16-18 Oct. 2020 Close to You Festival
28-29 Jul. 2023 International Puppetry Arts Festival in Saguenay

In Taipei. A man and a woman in the city are having a dinner date. They ride a scooter going through the town to a traditional market to buy ingredients. While they are shopping, the distinctive atmosphere of the traditional market and items unique to Taiwan bring out the taste of life in Taipei. The two grow intimacy while preparing food and cooking, revealing a whimsical world of food and lust – a redemptive fable of secret city symbols penetrating into body and soul.

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