Synopsis

This is a transformation of stories.
Imagination giving birth to stories,
Stories nesting within stories,
Weaving, coupling, multiplying and renewing themselves.
Between one narrative and the next,
New beginnings and endings emerge,
Ever continuing, never complete.

Following the success of Blood & Rose Ensemble (2018), Oliver Chong from The Finger Players (Singapore) and Wang Chia-Ming from Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (Taiwan) return to Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts with a brand-new original collaboration, Tall Tales: Bananas and Ang Ku Kuehs.

Inspired by The Decameron, Tall Tales reimagines folk tales from the collaborators’ native cultures. From The Snake Prince to Princess Tailan, snake to monkey, bananas to ang ku kuehs, these stories transfigure into strange new narratives where man, myth, and mortality intertwine in matter and form, exploring the coexistence between humans and nature through an interplay of live performance and puppetry.

This production is Culture Pass eligible.

Shakespeare’s Wild Sister Group (Taiwan)

Founded in the summer of 1995, Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (SWS) owes its name to the fictional character in Virginia Woolf’s novel A Room of One’s Own, meaning to liberate women’s talents from the oppression of patriarchy. Limiting itself to no specific issues or conventional aesthetics, SWS takes materials from all arts inspiring to create original theatrical works.

Through collective exploration, the troupe continually seeks its own distinctive theatrical language and style. In addition to presenting new experimental works and engaging in artistic and cultural exchanges both locally and internationally each year, it also remains dedicated to nurturing creative platforms, promoting arts education, and participating in cultural policy development.

Wang Chia-ming (Taiwan)

Wang Chia-ming, founder and artistic director of Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group, is recognised for blending experimental performance styles with popular themes. Working closely with performers, he actively explores and challenges the possibilities of theatre.

In 2018, his work Café Lumière was invited to the Tokyo Festival. In 2019, his work Dear Life was staged at the Festival d’Automne à Paris and later in 2023, at the Schaubühne Berlin’s Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik (FIND), making it the first contemporary Taiwanese theatrical work to be presented on both of these major European arts platforms. Most recently, his international work includes The Bathhouse of Honest Desires at the Tokyo Festival 2025.

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Supported by

Co-Directors & Co-Playwrights 編導

Oliver Chong 钟达成
Wang Chia-ming 王嘉明

Co-Producers 制作人

Myra Loke 骆丽诗
Nitta Yukio 陈汗青

Set Designer 舞台设计

Oliver Chong 钟达成

Costume Designer 服装设计

Jeffy Cheah 谢建国

Lighting Designer 灯光设计

Wang Tien-hung 王天宏

Sound Designer 音乐设计

Wang Chia-ming 王嘉明

Music Composer 编曲

Blaire Ko 柯智豪

System Design & Engineer 音响设计及工程师

Jeffrey Yue

Puppet Designer 戏偶设计

Daniel Sim 沈永恩

Puppet Fabricator 戏偶制作

Prop-erly

Puppet Master 戏偶管理

Beverly Liang 梁静雯

Props Master 道具管理

Loo An Ni 罗安妮

Performers & Puppeteers 演员和偶员

Ellison Tan 陈宇泱
Myra Loke 骆丽诗
Ric Liu 刘晋旭
FA
Hsueh Mei-hua 薛美华
Chen Chia-hao 陈佳豪

Production Manager 制作经理

Cindy Yeong

Stage Manager 舞台监督

Tennie Su 苏蜜嫣

Assistant Stage Managers 助理舞台监督

Cristabel Ng 黄鐘琦
Natalie Wong 王嘉慧

Set Coordinator 舞台设计助理

Marc Andre

Script Translator 剧本翻译

Ellison Tan 陈宇泱

Surtitle Operator 字幕操作

Teo Pei Si 张佩思

Key Visual Designer 主视觉设计

Sim Xin Feng 沈心凤