We will send you information on the real-time distribution of the performance of the Nanguan Opera "Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost" by the collaboration between the traditional theater group "Gang-a-tsui theater" in Taiwan and the Japanese Butoh company "TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTOBO ".
"Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost" is a collaboration work between Taiwan and Japan twice in 2006 and 2010, directed by TOMOE SHIZUNE, the artistic director of " TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTOBO". This year, a replay was planned at the National Theater Center for Traditional Arts in Taiwan. It will be an opportunity to watch in real time around the world, so I will guide you. I hope you'll see it.

In 2006, "Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost", performed at the Taipei National Experimental Theater in Taiwan, won the 5th Taishin Art Award in the Performing Arts category, and was invited to the "FESTIVAL DE L'IMAGINAIRE" in Paris in 2010. It was performed at L'Opera de la Bastille and was highly acclaimed.

"�fZhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost�f is a joint work between Gang-a-tsui theater and Japanese TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTOBO. The fusion of Chinese classics and the beauty of Japanese butoh produced a very pure and mature work of art. Gang-a-tsui theater is a representative work that has achieved its efforts for ten years. Fusion of experimental creation is achieved, and at the same time, culture of Gang-a-tsui theater and TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTOBO are combined." (Taishin Art Prize Grand Prize-Reason for receiving the award)

After 10 years, the romance story �gZhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost�h, which transcends the space and time of ghosts and humans, will be replayed. Below is an overview of the real-time distribution.

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Nanguan Opera and "Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost" (by TOMOE SHIZUNE)
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�ƒNanguan Opera�„
�gGang-a-tsui theater�h is a Taiwanese troupe that inherits the traditional theater called �gNanguan Opera�h in Fujian Province, China. The drama, which has a long history of 800 years compared to 200 years of Peking Opera, was at the time of decline after the war due to the political situation in Taiwan and China. Comprehensive stage art that combines dance, song, play and music with delicate gestures of limbs is both elegant and indigenous.


�ƒAbout "Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost"�„
The script for " Zhu Wen Elopes with the Ghost " was discovered in 1953 by an actress of " Nanguan Opera ", which is active in the countryside of Quanzhou. In Chinese, a demon is a ghost.
A long time ago, there was a ghost of a girl who was abused in a prostitute to protect her operations. A poor young man (Zhu Wen) stays in the house where she was, and a ghost and the love fantasy of the young man begin.

--Part 1
At midnight, a ghost enters the room as an excuse to lend the light of the lost candles to the room where Zhu Wen stays. Naive Zhu Wen swears ghosts and eternal love. At the dawn's farewell, the girl ghost presents a small gold embroidered wallet to Zhu Wen as a proof of love.

--Part 2
On the coming day, the hotel's mischievous hostess and pleasant host pick up an embroidered wallet that Zhu Wen has dropped. "I put this wallet in the coffin of a daughter I had killed a long time ago. That young man must be vandalizing the graveyard." An angry host and his wife pursue Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen thinks that they do not allow to marry their daughter. All three know that the ghost of their daughter has appeared. Host and his wife begging for forgiveness. Zhu Wen leaves the inn to escape at a glance. A ghost of girl chasing the Zhu Wen.

--Part 3
Out of the village of twilight. Zhu Wen thinks, "If it escape to here, I will be safe." The ghost that appeared at him. "Well, what can I do? You may not forget your promise of eternal love with me." Originally, a little stupid man, Zhu Wen.
Whether they were persuaded by a ghost with femininity rooted in the earth, or the weakness of a man who seeks romance beyond life and death, they held hands together and were invited over To go.