La Réminiscence d’un fantôme

The play tells the story of a woman housekeeper, a female star, and a male publisher, who gather at the meeting to await the return of An-Chi’s ghost, the deceased woman writer.“La Réminiscence d’un fantôme” is a play of the conversations between the characters that slowly expose the unknown past of a deceased woman writer as well as her relationships with the three persons. On the all-exposed stage where there is nowhere to hide, the puppet materializes all that is invisible and intangible in the story. The puppet presents as the spirit, traveling among the three actors. The way the interaction between the actor and the puppet is presented resembles the communication between man and spirit that always requires a medium, so that the humans can explore the space between life and death and the invisible, mysterious power. Sometimes it is as if the person is speaking for the spirit, but at other times it is more like the spirit represents the remorse the person can never let go off making the play into a dialectics of reality and fiction in writing and in life. The performance leads us to explore how a writer regards writing as a ritual, and how this writer reaches self-realization by wandering in the liminal space between life and death.

Program of 2012 Taiwan International Festival of Art
Premiere: March 2, 2012, Experimental Theater, Taipei
Script: Ling-chih CHOW
Director: Chia-yin CHENG