Taiwanese Theatre Talks: Recent Episodes
Angelina Jian
This program introduces you to the theatre field in Taiwan! We will be talking about Taiwanese theatre from different perspectives, including history, education, policy, industry, and more. Angelina Jian, a producer based in Taiwan and an international student at CalArts, shares with you how theatre evolves and develops in Taiwan. More info here: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
Do we need an art industry? In Taiwan, we don’t have an art industry yet and our government is continuously encouraging us to build one since around 2008. Obviously, the progress was slowed down by the pandemic, but we can tell that some foundations aren’t well established yet since long time ago so it feels like while we are building it, more questions and problems appear.
Guest: Chunwei, Wang
Podcast Website: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
In this episode, we will be talking about our recent life of making arts, something about collaboration, and our real life. This is a conversation between a producer and a director, discussing our career and our value as artists.
Guest: Peng Hsu
Podcast Website: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
As a national venue, what's our current relationship between audience and cultural policy? Audience development and cultural policy issues have always been the biggest challenges we have while transforming into an industry. Today, we will have this conversation with Meng Yu, the associate manager of the learning development division at the National Taichung Theatre.
Guest: Meng Yu, Lai
Podcast Website: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
How do we educate and train young people to become theatre artists in Taiwan? Within that training process, what’s the difference between the United States and Taiwan? Sharing my takeaway from both programs in Taiwan and the United States.
Guest: Kim Chen
Podcast Website: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
After 1987, Taiwan gradually became a democratic country and started to develop authentic Taiwanese theatre. Do you know how much we've achieved in the past 40 years?
More Info here: https://sites.google.com/view/taiwanesetheatretalks
Who is Angelina Jian? Where is Taiwan?
Let's talk about our experience at CalArts! And if you are interested in how I describe the theatre field in Taiwan, stay tuned.
Guests: Charles Yee, Rui Xu, Melanie Ernestina