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Playwright Concept for Singing All the Night
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When I was discussing the theme with Rhett, the producer, and Daniel, the director, at the beginning, we agreed not to try to do any kind of reproduction of the past. So then we had to figure out what touched us most about that time.
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In the '80s, I was a young child. My dad was a piano teacher who also played at cabarets, Western restaurants, and piano bars. I have this image in my mind from sometime in my childhood of a grand piano on a stage someplace he was working, and on the piano was a stemmed glass bowl as big as a soup pot and full of money, a full night of tips given by customers. I also remember that the women had a gleam in their eyes that flashed at times but disappeared just as quickly, as if they were consciously trying to hide it. Had they let go, that gleam would have shined enough to make you squint.
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It wasn't until later that I realized that era was the tumultuous beginning of a period that saw an array of conflicts, bans lifted, and dialogues on a diversity of issues. From the chaos emerged all kinds of self-identities.
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That made me think of two women standing in front of a magnificent, treacherous maze similar to the one in the film Labyrinth, and after choosing to enter through separate doors, they do all possible to find their way out and save themselves.
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I formed the atmosphere and set the mood based on the cabaret variety shows of the past. Skits and storytelling take the place of recreating memories, and a different kind of color and texture are given by backtracking to different times in the past.
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Director Concept for Singing All the Night
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The '80s were full of novelty and hope. Progress started to be made in transportation, the media, and globalization, but it wasn't like now, so fast that nothing seems novel anymore. Every new invention and new form of the abovementioned incited exciting changes and hope, though they also may have caused certain industries to disappear. The greater the hope, the greater the accompanying challenges. How to believe, hope, survive, and face difficulties while swinging between hope and challenge is the theme of Singing All the Night.
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The piece is about the rise and decline of a cabaret variety show performer. I wanted to bring back that feeling from when I used to walk by the Lianmei Cabaret and show my impression of that era: We seemed to have something to do all the time, always unconsciously being pushed to progress, but we didn't know what for—we just tried to keep steady and take the next step despite not even knowing what the next step should be! We never had any choices.
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The story is told by blending on- and off-stage aspects to vividly depict the characters' daily lives on stage. Within the outwardly glamorous shows is hidden the inner helplessness of the characters, these two aspects interweaving and echoing each other, revealing how "insignificant" people persist in looking up at the stars despite having their hands tied.
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