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Uppingthe Ante 14 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010 • TAIPEI TIMES BY NOAH BUCHan COMPILED BY THEATER STOP Ian BartHOLOmeW t’s often said that the the media to stop bothering her entertainment industry is built family, and got decidedly tetchy on foundations of fantasy when accused of lacking proper Iand hype, but some old-time respect for family elders. “It’s entertainers understand the not up to the media to define importance of putting their money what constitutes respect,” she is into something that lasts. quoted as saying. the ante In the case of Fei Yu-ching In romance-related news, (費玉清), the younger brother of Sammi Cheng (鄭秀文) has, Upping popular entertainer Chang Fei according to NOWnews.com, (張菲), that’s bricks and mortar. become the touch-paper of a This week, the media was breakup between Chinese singer awash with news that the singer Andy Hui (許志安) and Michelle and TV host had spent NT$330 Yu (余德琳), his girlfriend of million on purchasing a property three years. on Dunhua North Road (敦化北路). Hui and Cheng enjoyed a According to the Apple Daily, high-profile and commercially Fei Yu-ching bought the property successful personal and outright, paying cash up front professional relationship in the for the 600-plus square meter first half of the last decade. commercial property. Cheng said in a statement Fei Yu-ching certainly has the that her relationship with Hui money to spend, having grossed, had changed over the past according to the paper, a total of 10 years “from romance to NT$186 million for concerts so friendship” (愛情變成了情誼), and far this year. that there was no basis for the According to the Apple pair getting back together. Daily, the singer, known for Cheng begged the media to his mellifluous voice, low-key lay off the three principals of this lifestyle and financial acumen, is drama, but in a slow news week, This year’s Taipei Arts Festival is all about experimentation. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TAIPEI ARTS FESTIVAL, ERICK LABBE AND FRANCESCO RAFFAELLI careful with his money. her wish fell on deaf ears. Another entertainer who is TV personality He Yi-hang he 12th Taipei Arts Festival (第十二屆台北藝術節) Castellucci “a towering visual genius” who created a “And this year, we intentionally emphasized avant- being careful with money is Lin (賀一航) has become a major began yesterday with Hey Girl!, a visually stunning “mesmerizing show.” garde work for audiences because coming to the Chi-ling (林志玲), who has decided focus of news after police performance by Romeo Castellucci. The avant-garde Even more unconventional, perhaps, is Stifters third year, our audience should be ready for a greater to fight a tax claim of NT$8.19 busted a prostitution and drug Tplay and its celebrated Italian director embody the Dinge, a genre-bending piece that opens on Wednesday challenge,” she said. million on her earnings from ring midweek. Apart from being direction in which the festival has been headed since by internationally celebrated German director and last year. The conflict centers on shown to have been a regular the Taipei Culture Foundation (台北市文化基金會) took composer Heiner Goebbels. Equal parts music, theater whether some of her earnings client of the syndicate, He stands control of it three years ago. and art installation, it is described in the festival are regarded as income earned accused of having trafficked “We want people to see that [the Taipei Arts Festival] catalogue as “a composition for five pianos with no FESTIVAL NOTES through her association with cocaine and ketamine, which is is doing some serious art instead of community art,” said pianists, a play with no actors, a performance without modeling agency Catwalk (凱渥) likely to get him into much more Victoria Wang (王文儀), executive director of the Taipei performers — one might say a no-man show.” Wang WHAT: Taipei Arts Festival (第十二屆台北藝術節) or personal income. trouble than the titillating reports Culture Foundation. “This [means] giving audiences a said it was chosen because it illustrates the endless WHERE: National Experimental Theater; National According to the tax agency, that he engaged in threesomes new format, new techniques and new styles to show possibilities that contemporary theater professionals are Theater; Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yanping Lin failed to report NT$170 with hookers. where contemporary theater is going.” bringing to the stage. S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號); Metropolitan million in personal income Despite the lurid details In 2008, the first year of the festival’s reorganization, While some plays might stretch the limits of the Hall (城市舞台), 25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北 between 2003 and 2005, which is that have been splashed across the Taipei Culture Foundation spent a wad of cash on viewer’s understanding, others may test their ability to 市八德路三段25號); Taipei Brewery (台北啤酒文化園 the basis of its present claim. the tabloids, He’s fiancee, bringing Robert Wilson to Taiwan, which significantly concentrate. Lipsynch by Robert Lepage, the French- 區), 85, Bade Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市八德路二段 Meanwhile, (蔡依 referred to in the Chinese- Jolin Tsai increased the festival’s profile, said Wang. Last year’s Canadian pioneer of mixed-media theater, is an almost 85號); Nanhai Gallery (南海藝廊), 3, Ln 19, Chongqing 林) is promoting a new album, language media simply as Judy, theme, Shakespeare, relied on the Bard’s good name nine-hour “marathon” performance (including four short S Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市重慶南路二段19巷3號) which once again sees her is standing by her man, for the to present a number of avant-garde pieces. It proved a intermissions and a 45-minute dinner break). It begins WHEN: Through Sept. 12 flaunting her many physical moment at least. successful pairing with many shows selling out soon on Aug. 21 and tells the story of an orphaned boy who ON THE NET: www.taipeifestival.org (Chinese and assets in the media. Their wedding, scheduled for after tickets went on sale. is adopted by an opera singer, and playfully touches on The album, titled Myself, has the end of the year, is still on This year’s festival features unconventional theater the heavy themes of family, language and identity. English) already generated much hype with track. According to a report in the by some of the world’s top practitioners and more But Taipei Arts Festival is not just about DETAILS: Tickets available through NTCH ticketing rumors of steamy music videos. United Daily News, police said mainstream theatrical performances and musicals by unconventional theater. It also offers a lineup of more or online at www.artsticket.com.tw The most recently released that He had been “very unlucky” local troupes. conventional fare that revolves around this year’s theme music video, Love’s Pupil (玩愛 (很衰), since their investigations But are Taipei audiences ready to pay big bucks for of “mystery and affection.” Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters 之徒), for which Tsai served as had not been targeting him at all. what is generally considered experimental theater? As Group (莎士比亞的妹妹們的劇團) revives its 2005 musical PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE artistic director, is rumored to He was just in the wrong place at of Wednesday, only Waiting for What? (等待窩窩頭之團團 Michael Jackson, a hagiography about the life of this push the boundaries, showing the wrong time. 圓圓越獄風雲), a play by Four Chairs Theater (四把椅子劇 troubled star. Thriller, Bad and Dangerous are among HEY GIRL!, today, tomorrow and Sunday at the off vast areas of Tsai’s well- 團) about pandas Yuan Yuan (圓圓) and Tuan Tuan (團團) the numbers that will be performed. Taipei Brewery (tickets are NT$1,200) toned body. plotting to escape from the Taipei Zoo, had sold out. Mint, Rosemary and the Flower With No Name STIFTERS DINGE, Wednesday to Aug. 15 at the While Tsai revels in opening The party’s over for He Yi-hang. Wang lamented the difficulty the festival had in (薄荷、迷迭香和不知名的花) by Slow Island Theater (慢 Taipei Brewery (tickets are NT$1,200) up on screen, she has said PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES promoting some of the more demanding of its top- 島劇團) offers the troupe’s take on the enigma of WAITING FOR WHAT!, Thursday to Aug. 15 at that she has had enough of billed performances. “In Taiwan, audiences tend to intimacy with a love story between two women. All Nanhai Gallery (sold out) unwelcome attention from the want all the answers ... They want to know exactly Music Theater (音樂時代劇場) broadens the festival’s MICHAEL JACKSON, Aug. 19 to Aug. 22 at media, which has recently taken what [an artist] is trying to [say],” she said. “So it’s theme with The Impossible Times (渭水春風), a story Zhongshan Hall (tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,600) to shining the spotlight on her more like an educational kind of experience for them that examines issues of national identity through the LIPSYNCH, Aug. 21 to Aug. 28 at Metropolitan Hall family life. — not an artistic or relaxing or even entertaining kind life of Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水), a formative figure in (tickets are NT$1,200 to NT$4,200) In a of experience.” This is unfortunate, because this year’s Taiwan’s colonial resistance movement — a subject MINT, ROSEMARY AND THE FLOWER WITH statement to lineup features the work of directors who rarely, if ever, that is certain to resonate because his legacy remains NO NAME, Aug. 27 to Aug. 29 at Zhongshan Hall the press, come to Taiwan. the stuff of considerable debate in all sides of Taiwan’s (tickets are NT$500) Tsai asked But perhaps it’s understandable, as many of the political spectrum.
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