2018 Fringe Awards

Yong Zhen Fringe Award

I'm Struggling (Curated Programs)

We, So-called “The Youth”, at this confusing and exciting age; facing the uneasiness of life/ disturbance while craving the future/ and the curiosity of Self-identity. To these, we are ignorance. The actor with the costume, when they off the stage and walk into life，can they find themself easily，and communicate with their own self.. 5 Actors, 4 Spot of performing, and 1 Interactive performing，all solo.

Performing Artists / House Peace

House Peace , founded in 2018 . Our specialty start from space , combine both dynamic and Static , performance and exhibition. And trying to discover the new sparkle between text and space while we create in theatre . Do not trying to pissed me off !
https://www.facebook.com/HousePeace.Taiwan/?rc=p

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Yong Zhen Future Star Award

Roaming Lady

Have you ever noticed the one who passed you by when you are wandering in this congested city filled with the endless stream of traffic and throng?
Have you ever thought about where is the end of the life？
What was she thinking about when she jumped into the platform?
Screech.

Performing Artists / R.O.D

R.O.D symbolizes what we feel unclothed about the topic, what we feel naked for ourselves, and what we feel bared for the audience.
“Ride or Die”, meaning that we die if we don’t progress; we live forever if we march on the path of art.
https://www.facebook.com/R.O.D.2013/

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Genuinely Fringe

Girl's Notes

"Girls Notes"
Chapter reference:

What role did you play in a love game?
What if you are in love?
Discuss sex with girls
Girls don't ignore gait beauty

Performing Artists / SU Pin-Wen

Pin-Wen has academic background in Philosophy, Choreography, Improvisation, and Modern dance. Politically in Gender equality, identity herself as a Feminism Artist. Life style: Vegetarian, Hedonistic, Transcendentalism, Techno. Researches: Relationship: Gender equality- modern Female behavior, Domination: Power Exchange as a 24/7 Mistress(BDSM), Touch Treatment: Touch Sensation and Energy exploration.
http://supinwen.blogspot.tw/

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Genuinely Fringe

How To Make Your Vagina Feel Good

This is a forum.
From puberty to menopause, women are fighting with menstrual blood 7 days a month for 40 years.
We will experience and analyze advantages and disadvantages of various new menstrual products.
Welcome and join us!

Performing Artists / Ren Jhen Lian Wu Jhong

When we do modern dance, it looks like hip hop; when we do hip hop dance, it looks like folk dance.
Compare to public issue such as environmental protection, we care more about how our vagina feel.
https://www.facebook.com/RJLWing

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Most Creative Award

The Life of Blanche Dubois

Blanche doesn't tell truth, but what ought to be truth. She seems to live in lies but appears to be a true human being. This production deconstruct the classic of Tennessee Williams, and reflect realism with dance.

Now, she presents her monologue, and she says in heart she never lie.

Performing Artists / 周先生與演員們

Team members are mainly from the department of Drama and Theatre in NTU. We fuse drama and dance with Stanislavsky's acting skills, and we collage set, props, body and language to emerge our unique expression of contemporary theatre aesthetics.

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Best Theatre Performance

DON'T Call Me By Your Name

We have bathed ourselves into the absurd until losing control some day!
Shall we keep on? Or just wait and see what gonna happen afterlife?
(Be a humankind is not a choice... )

Performing Artists / Sully Bai Export Processing Zone

Sully is currently stepping back to the utopia with full preparation !
Guess what ?
We gonna show you something marvelous and unpredictable creativity!
To be or not to be,that's a fxcking question.
https://reurl.cc/yyg98

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Best Dance Performance

White Hole in Theory

Most of the time, we wouldn’t like to experience other people’s secrets,including broken relationships.
However, we still love to fantasize things in theory, for instance, world peace.
As time goes by, we won’t think those things are serious or crucial.
Scarcely realized that we all died for this.

Performing Artists / Life Holds No More

We are all harmed by the world, but we know that love means everything.

In fact, we don’t really hate the world, we eager more than other people.
Even life holds no more.
https://www.facebook.com/lifeholdsnomore/

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Best Music Performance

Just Love Singing

We would like to present you some a cappella choral works. Without exaggerated and fancy performing, there are only our pure voices. This program includes religious music, pastoral songs, madrigal and adapted pop songs we love. It will be a lovely party. We are looking forward to your coming.

Performing Artists / Singing Lovers

We are a group of people with different ages, backgrounds and occupations. What we have in common is that we all love music and have been singing chorus for years.
Singing has become a part of our life, and hope it will last for long and be our lifetime passion
https://www.facebook.com/pg/SingingLovers2018

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Best Comedy Performance

Super Improv. Temptation

In the performance, the actors will present the most exciting, mind-blowing improvisation following the commands you provide! Be ready to laugh your head off by their spontaneous reactions with excellent skills and unpredictable effects! No pre-arrangement! No rehearsal! Every performance is the one and only!

Performing Artists / The New One Theatre

In 2016, a group of youngsters, with the passion for theatre, started The New One Theatre. Our vision is to integrate the creativity of artists and to create a platform for people interested in theatre to further explore the wonder of theatre.
https://www.facebook.com/thenewonetheatre/

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Best Other Performance

Information Explosion

A show combined with the dance and the technology. Through the elements, such as objects, lights, projections, music and voices, which are presenting “the Information”, to present the era of Moore's law.

Performing Artists / Koko Lab

A group tries to bring the technology and digital elements to the stage. We’ve tried holding some electronic parties, live band and vocal concerts. The main members include an engineer and a performing arts worker.
https://www.kokolab.com.tw/

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Thumbs Up!

Household

What does home smell like? Urination, food spoilage, dust, cigarettes. There are no witty taunts or drama with capital R, just some dead people and their unpaid debts.

Performing Artists / BlindDate Theatre

"I've heard that person is fine, would you like to work with him/her?"
Yup, finding partner in theater is like blind date, you are slightly scared before the baby question. Maybe still after.
And finding a good show is no different.
Audiences who seek love, come meet us, just like blind date.
https://www.facebook.com/BlindDateTheatre/

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Lovers' Discourse

It is a play which talks about the syndrome of the sickness of being in romance. We want to bring all the audience back to the delirious time of being in love with someone.

Performing Artists / Corny Chicken Youth Theatre

Corny Chicken Youth Theatre is sub-group of Corny Chicken theatre.Our works focus on the adaptation of classics and the perspectives of youth in society. The young actors will be trained in reading literature and experimental spirit with philosophical ideas.
https://cornychicken-youth.weebly.com/

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Sakizayamis

Sakizayamis is a mix of Suana himself which he creates an imaginary kingdom based on his true stories and makes up with historical events. The work is about to present and reflect the social condition, values, labour power as a human by music, motion and other theater elements.

Performing Artists / Suana Emuy Cilangasan

Suana Emuy Cilangasay has started his music career as a studio musician in 1998. Besides writing musical, poetry, and oratorio, he also creates and rearranges songs for pop and indie music.
https://oar11040.wixsite.com/sakizayamis

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Islander

A flamenco performer, Lu Lee shares her personal experience and investigation about flamenco, arts, and what it feels and means to be a Taiwanese.

Performing Artists / Lu Lee

Lu Lee is a Formosa/Taiwan born flamenco artist. She has performed in Singapore, Japan, the USA and Spain. She loves to work with artists from various backgrounds, butoh, modern dance, jazz, classical, Chinese music and so on. She also enjoys bringing flamenco to museums, exhibitions, and other spaces.
http://aluzaitaiwan.wixsite.com/lu-flamenco

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What would you like to know?

A fortune teller who is always trying to solve doubts face many customers who come and go. How should she instruct everyone to do the next step?

Performing Artists / Mom told me to find a real job

We're a group of young people who work every day, but even if life is difficult, we still want to be an actor.Time is like a cleavage but we don’t have any! So we’re returning to using a little time it’s not easy to squeeze out, hoping to play happily.
https://www.facebook.com/fortunetellerlu/

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My name is Alice

"For so long, I haven't been home. And now, I begin to miss it.What I miss is exact the thing that I try so hard to get away with."
She meets Alice, in this special day.
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It's a story about forgetting, growing up, loving , and being loved.

Performing Artists / Girls' Party Theatre

Girls having parties that tell stories.
Better with beers. Better with sea.
Barefoot and ponytail.
I will hear you out, and so will you.
https://www.facebook.com/%E5%A6%AE%E5%AD%90%E6%B4%BE%E5%B0%8D%E5%8A%87%E5%A0%B4%E5%86%8D%E8%A6%8B%E6%84%9B%E9%BA%97%E7%B5%B2-918302998349293/

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Psyche

The android had been picking up space debris. One day, he noticed the rescue signal. There was a baby who had just woken up from the cold-sleep. He decided to bring up the baby. This is the story of an android who dreams of the earth and builds a spaceship.

Performing Artists / INDEPENDENT

INDEPENDENT is the festival specializing in short one-man stage plays based in Osaka, Japan, which started in 2001. It has been held continuously without a pause, and the number of works co-produced with artists has already exceeded 400. It will be our first oversea advancement this time.
http://independent-fes.com/

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Green platypus in Himalayas

B A# A G# G D# D C.
aqua aura gold, platinum, emerald, ocean gold, pink aura gold, rose quartz.
10 alchemy crystal singing bowls, have their own unique color energy, sing different tones, sometimes scattered, and sometimes staggered to create an unprecedented sound wave, which is a random, impromptu musical performance.

Performing Artists / 46 Pd

SWS , yoga instructor.
Aren , singing bowls musician.
Through yoga , they met each other.
Through crystal singing bowls , they formed a band.
46 Pd
https://www.instagram.com/46pd_/

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Echoes of Time

If history is an objective timeline, what is fallen out of the subjective mind? When fleshes are no longer in touch, what links the emotions?
An installation performance piece brought by award-winning scenographer Wiki Lo with her team is gonna bring you a key to the unknown time-space of memories.

Performing Artists / 37°C

37°C is a theatre collective from Hong Kong, who interest in decomposing the reality into new experiences, to resemble the elements of life, such as sound/ light/ time/ space/ words/ bodies, etc. to build a tunnel for exploring the unknown common ground of humanity.
http://thirtysevendc.com/

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Audience Award

Enter the Hero

If Rose has a profession,she must be a love consultant who often be accused.
The room full of flowers and envelopes reveal a secret of first love.Are you a Leading character, Supporting actor or Dominated role in romance drama?How will you stop at nothing for love?Who she deceived in love story?

Performing Artists / Tough Play Drama

11 millennials were attracted by stage dramas and founded "Tough Play Drama". On the stage, we want to tell you, "About the past, we walked into the characters, finding the answers belong to ourselves. About the future, you are not alone, the journey to the dream has already head out."
https://www.facebook.com/Tplaydrama/

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