Vive La Vie

Actor +Puppets+ Shadows+Live Music

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

A combination of concert, drama and exhibition
Flying Group Theatre collaborates with L’est et l’Ouest ,Double Time Music
And the BCBF International Illustration Award winning illustrator Ghislaine Herbéra

To create the performance and exhibition Viva La Vie,
It’s a present  for all of  you
Wish you all enjoy the gift
The gift about the sweetness of life  

【Concert】 11/28
Starts with the theme “Viva La Vie”
The concert has us trace back to the three parts of the A Sleep and a Forgetting trilogy. The Birth, The Day of Growing up and La Disparition
The progress of growing up is colorful
Let us embrace the journey of life 

【Theatre: Le jour de grandir】12/4-12/6，12/19-12/20
The little boy and the little girl are good friends. They start their journey to find the day of ‘growing up’. First, they have to pass through a forest. During the journey, they meet a mermaid, a bird fisher, a person who can transform between male and female…and the king of the forest. In this fantastic adventure, they are looking and searching for the day of ‘growing up’. Where is the day of ‘growing up’? Does that day exist?

【Theatre：La Disparition】12/5-12/6，12/11-12/13
Lost objects may be found, but what if the people who “disappear”? According to the legend, the great hollow in the thousand-year-old tree is the entrance to the other world. One day, the sister took her brother to the tree.  Inside the old tree hollow, they met the Dragon King and Grandmother Fox. “Death is a marriage to the land, from which new life is born”, said Grandmother Fox. Wandering inside the great hollow within the tree, where will they be leading to as the final destination of their adventure?

【Theatre：La Naissance】12/12-12/13，12/18-12/20
Long time ago, when I was in my Mum’s belly, I had a lot of dreams. For most of them I’ve forgotten, only this one…A little girl had found an egg in a Whale’s belly. She wanted to keep this egg, but was afraid that it would die. So she decided to look for its mother. On her journey, she met Seagull Mother, Hippocampus Couple, and Clown fish Couple. But neither of them were its parents. While the egg became bigger and bigger. A Giant was burn from it. He continued to grow up. And became the Sky, the Earth, and the World…The little girl woke up, finally. She decided to say farewell to the Whale.And looked to her own Birth.

【Exhibition：Treasured Fragment】11/28-12/20
Creator：Pei-Yu Shih,Carrie Ou

Beginning with birth and end up with death
Life is like a process between getting up and falling asleep
Within a blink of eye
What was left in this journey of life?