Utopiazoo

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Mask／70mins

Text: Jung-shih Chou
Director：Pei-Yu Shih
Illustrator：Ghislaine Herbéra

Premiere
17-19 Nov. 2017 Taipei  Wellspring Theater

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A combination of puppetry, mask and shadow theatre
Utopiazoo has us face the ongoing refugee crisis with animal fables
And embrace the diversity of the world through theatre arts

 All stories begin with “Once upon a time”. However, the story Utopiazoo starts with a little horse . The little horse left its hometown, wandered far away to a valley on its own. As its arrival to the valley ,It disturbed the daily life of the resident animals ,thus the little horse was treated with hostility in the group. As a natural disaster left the animals displaced , they escaped from the disaster, but then found themselves facing the issue of integration as they arrived in a foreign environment.