Productions

galang ima’

2024.10
Taitung Cultural Center

Hypocritical aborigines tourist parks are the collective memory of Taiwanese people, and the grotesque scenes have quietly become the public's true impression of aboriginal peoples. Galang ima’, this black comedy wittily and sincerely exposes the plight of sightseeing performances and contemporary aboriginal peoples and presents the embarrassing scene of cultural conflict.




2024.10
Taitung Cultural Center
Producer: Migo YANG
Playwright: Sayun Nomin
Director: HSU Yen-ling
Stage Design: CHANG Che-lung
Light Design: TENG Cheng-wei
Music Design: Blaire KO
Costume Design: HSIEH Chien-kuo
Graphic Design: LIN Yu-chun
Logotype Design: HO Ching-chung

Performer: Fangas Nayaw, Ihot Sinlay Cihek, Hola Taru , Sayun Nomin

Reviews

Amid the crafting of stereotypical characters and scripts, the work effortlessly blends humor and wounds, mockery and tears, creating a potential dialogue between the characters and the real-life predicaments of Indigenous peoples. Through the use of stylized performance techniques, it gradually builds up the tension between tourist-oriented showcase theater and modern theater. The seemingly simple daily conversations subtly but sharply address the power dynamics, cultural structures, and persistent stereotypes within Taiwanese society. It also profoundly reflects the contemporary situation in which different ethnic groups, under the structural framework of identity and national concepts, continue to inherit the colonial issues of the past. This work offers a genuinely sincere approach to understanding and confronting Indigenous cultural issues in Taiwan today.

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