Memory

Puppets／40 mints

Text／Director／Puppet designer：Shih, Pei-Yu

Premiere
8 & 15 Jul. 2006　Bar & Restaurant：Ringside

In the moment just before memories are destined to fade, what would you like to remember?

In a summer afternoon, an old lady, sweating, fanning herself with her trembling hand. The stifling heat created a sense of suffocation, also put everything in a trance. Suddenly, the time went slow, everything was floating in the air. A pretty red flower took the old lady back to her memory, took her back to her teenage time. They played with a string, swam lively with schools of fish in the ocean, flew into the sky and overlooked Taipei, the place she had lived for years, spun around Taipei 101, and lay gently on the cloud. Eventually back to reality, the hot and humid afternoon. The old woman would wonder, what would the red flower that led her to the adventure be? Where had the wonderful views and the happy moments left in her memory gone? Also, what would the red spot that kept emerging in her trip be? “Memory” applies objects and props from daily life, and collages a miracle adventure full of imagination. Through the delicate puppet manipulation, it portrays the image of local old ladies in Taiwan.