Robert Wilson’s Intercultural Collaboration with Taiwan:Orlando and 1433 The Grand Voyage

• Main Authors: Ping-jen Yang, 楊評任
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Mei Hsieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70533749486614560478

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 戲劇學研究所 === 100 === The Taiwan NCTH (National Theatre and Concert Hall) has invited Robert Wilson co-produce two intercultural flagship productions with Guoguang Opera Company and U Theatre: Orlando and 1433 The Grand Voyage from 2009 to 2010. The dream casting involves two traditional opera divas: Wei Hai-ming and Tang Mei-yun. The theatre and artistic circles alike have a great expectation toward the productions, hoping Wilson bring Taiwan’s intercultural theatre to a greater level. Unexpectedly, these two intercultural productions have caused controversial debates since the performance curtained. Opinions varied from one another. The intercultural theatre advocators think it’d help Taiwan crossover to the global arena, achieving prospective innovative breakthrough. The others however argue that such intercultural flagship production model, which incorporates Western European theatre “maestros”, local theatre companies and investment, doesn’t take the local cultural and artistic context into account. It therefore results in the imbalance cultural flow and relation, producing the intercultural hegemony. However, such “binary opposition” discourse is not the best way of intercultural theatre studies, since it couldn’t help us study the field in a macro perspective. The “intercultural innovative” and “the hegemony” are like two sides of the spectrum that keep sliding back and forth in many intercultural performance discourses, depending on the attitude and ideologies of the participants. This thesis explores such intercultural phenomenon, including its cause and process, by taking Wilson’s two intercultural theatre collaborations with Taiwan as examples. It aims to study its intercultural flow and effect via the in-depth analysis of the production process: from the conceiving phase, the rehearsal, to the stage performance. With these analyses, the study ultimately hopes to provide an overview and debate, presenting an alternative research perspective of the intercultural theatre studies.