Waking Dreams

The daily headlines again and again challenge the way we perceive reality as well as our knowledge of the world with their absurdity. The boundary between dream and reality gets blurred… The characters in Waking Dream, with the unfulfilled desire and confusion they have experienced in real life, follow the mysterious “Hip-hop Fly Man” into a dream-like fantasy, where each of them is transformed into what they have been dreaming of: the Thousand-year Diva who waits for eternity, the Hollow Man who is always hungry, the Anteater Writer who longs for human contact, etc. In the dreamland, they communicate through no language but love songs. Actors in fantasized costume, often of surrealistic sizes, shatter the realm of the established norm and drag the audience to explore the world beyond imagination.

Premiere: Nov. 30, 2012/ Wen-shan Theater, Taipei
Dramaturgy: Choon-eiow KOH
Director: Jeff HSU