On the Edge of Reality

Traveling between the known and the unknown

Traveling between interdisciplinary puppetry, Puppet & Its Double Theater Company collaborates with German masters of marionette, Figuren Theatre Tübingen to create a poetic dreamland and confront people’s innermost fear. On the Edge of Reality begins with  Eastern and Western mythologies, The Shānhǎijīng, Monsters of Taiwan, and The Book of Imaginary Beings, using puppets and performers, modern and traditional theatrical techniques to explore the space of theater. Through the “indescribable and ineffable” agency, the show is a thought exchange between the East and the West. Flowing on the edge of reality, this piece incorporates puppets, objects, real-time projection, and live music that converge toward a futuristic theatrical language, reproducing a time journey in-between reality and virtuality, shaping the monsters that the contemporaries face and constructing a universal vision traveling on the edge of dream and reality, and the known and the unknown.

Premiere: April 17, 2021
Playwright: Hung-yang CHEN, Chia-yin CHENG
Director: Frank Soehnle, Chia-yin CHENG