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The Room
- Artistic
- Playwright：Shih, Pei-yu
- Director：Shih, Pei-yu
- Performers
- Actor：Chiu, An-Chen、Wang, Jing-dun、
- Scenic & Set Designer：Huang, Lian-qi
- Lighting Designer：Wang, Tien-hung
- Music Designer：Yu, Huan-fu
- Costume Designer：Hong, Jian-cang
- Technical
- Property Master：Hong, Jian-cang
Title
mainTitle:
The Room
subTitle:
TranslatedTitle:
房間
Subject
subjectMatter:
modern drama
genre:
performance record
keywords:
Shih, Pei-yu／modern drama
Description
abstractSynopsis:
The story describes father-son relationship and the process of reconciliation. The father (a doctor) died in Africa when his son was five years old. Growing up without the father's guidance and care, the son grew up in sorrow and remorse. Years later, when he was helping his mother to sort the things left behind by his father's reli, he came across a pile of letters sent out by the Father when he was in Africa. Upon reading the letters, the son started a cross-time dialogue with the father. These letters cs. The letters found servehelp as a bridge to forgiveness and reconciliation, re-establishing the father-son relationship and resolving the son's loss. the son to overcome his resentment towards the father and strong sense of loss. In this play, puppetry is symbolic of memoriesdeployed to portray memories. For instance, lamp, cup and glasses in the father's room are applied in puppetry to represent the father's image. When the letters describe the landscape in Africa, cattail leaf fan and umbrella in the big box are applied to resemble the scene while actors' hand gestures imitate the movements of birds, elephants and giraffes to represent wildlife. At the end of the play, the mother, who stands outside of the room, opens the stereoscopic card in her hands. She gazes to the room surrounded by shutters through the window in the card.
Subtitles
interTitles:
Available¡AMandarin
dialogNarrationTitle:
no
conditions:
good
acquireMethod:
provided by Shih, Pei-yu
edition:
restorationRecord:
notes:
language:
mandarin
edition2:
publisher:
Shih, Pei-yu
distributor:
Shih, Pei-yu
production:
Shih, Pei-yu
Date
year:
2008
date of performance:
2008
date of debut:
date of recording:
Location
place of debut:
Theatre of Data
place of performance:
Identifier
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Theatre of Data
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Rights
copyrightRestrictions
holderName:
Shih, Pei-yu
digiCopyHolderNames:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
rightsStatement:
authorized
accessRestriction:
noncommercial; for educational and researching purposes
copyrightTime:
2008
statement:
Owner
originalOwner
originalProvider:
Shih, Pei-yu
originalCollocation:
Shih, Pei-yu
originalCollectedDate:
2008
digitalCopyOwner
digiCopyOwners:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
digiCopyCollocations:
Research Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, National Central University
digiCopyCollectedDate:
2009.6.19
Metadata
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Research Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, National Central University
digitalFileCreatedDate:
2009.6.19
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
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Type
aggregationLevel:
item
originalSurrogate:
original
worksType:
modern dram
Format
medium:
Digital Video Disc
extent
quantity:
One Disc
duration:
56min19sec
scale
originalScale:
DVD
digitalCategory:
audio-visual
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mpg2
filename:
The Room
fileDesc:
permanent preserved
fileSize:
561MB
videoSize:
720x480
frameRate:
30fps
videoBitRate:
5.32Mbps
sampleRate:
48 KHz
audioBitRate:
256 Kbps
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