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Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival hits the stage in April

Organized by National Center for Traditional Arts’ Theatre Center, the 2025 Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival will take place April 11-June 8, underscoring commitment to facilitating understanding of traditional theatre. 

The festival is jointly curated by Chang Chi-feng and Yu Fu-kai, respectively professor and assistant professor at the Taipei University of the Arts and will bring together 11 performance groups.  

According to director of NCFTA, Chen Yue-yi, TTTF is a major event, with many of the pieces having won awards. She added that the theme of this year’s festival “Within/out Boundaries,” signifies the diversity and vitality of theatrical performance. Theater companies will interpret this theme as it relates to artificial intelligence, contemporary issues, multinational cooperation and time travel, the Ministry of Culture said.

Five of the 11 pieces center around real figures in history and develop new narratives in which reality intersects with fiction. The show “Clan of Crooks!? Reincarnation Into Another World” features Taiwanese opera performer Sun Tsui-feng, is based on a Qing dynasty folk tale and rewrites history through time travel. 

In addition to breaking boundaries between fact and fiction, four of the  plays challenge the line between reality and fantasy. Rom Shing Hakka Opera Troupe based in northern Taiwan’s Miaoli County will perform  “Imagine,” in which characters travel through time and space, going back and forth between Dadaocheng in Taipei City and Changan City in ancient China. 

This year’s festival also explores the polarization of new technology and traditional wisdom. National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan’s “The Sound of Feeling-A.I.-Me-me's Musical Internship” follows an AI robot in human society, the MOC said. (POC-E)

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