The Happy Prince

The dialogue between poetry and puppetry — share with us the touching moment of The Happy Prince

“The Happy Prince” is one of the signature works by the Puppet and Its Double. We borrow from “Rod Marionette,” a style popular in Czech, and improvise it to increase the mobility of the puppets. Multiple aesthetic styles of puppetry are applied on stage to express a poetic imagination and philosophical humor in the original story of Oscar Wilde. We also employ a mobile stage to help articulate the aura of the play. Through the multiple layers of relationships between humans and puppets, we hope to communicate an imagination and a philosophy of life, something that retains a flavor of fairy tale in a story about social reality. With these efforts, we mean to invite the audience onto an imaginary voyage to the small towns of the Scandinavian landscape to savor the grace of all the happiness and sadness in life.

Premiere: Sep. 18, 2008 / Experimental Theater, Taipei
Playwright: Bee-may LI, Chia-yin CHENG
Director: Chia-yin CHENG