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Xiangsi Nostalgia dir. by Lee Hsiao-Ping (review)

Xiangsi Nostalgia dir. by Lee Hsiao-Ping (review) Performance Reviews REFERENCES “chelfitsch: Time’s Journey through a Room.” 2016. Kyoto Experiment 2016. http://kyoto-ex.jp/2016-eng/program/ chelfitsch, accessed 18 July 2016. Eckershall, Peter. 2015. “Performance, Mourning and the Long View of Nuclear Space.” AsiaPacific Journal 13, issue 7, no. 2. XIANGSI NOSTALGIA. Directed by Lee Hsiao-Ping. National Theater, Taipei, Taiwan. 5 June 2016. Nine years after the first Hakka musical, a second, Xiangsi (Lovesickness) Nostalgia (香絲 相思) (2016) was staged in Taiwan. My Daughter’s Wedding (2007), an adaption of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, was the first and, like this new one, was produced by Taipei National University of the Arts and sponsored by Hakka Affairs Council. Xiangsi Nostalgia is different in that the script by playwright Lin Chien-Hua is taken from a Taiwanese short story, “Tung Flowers,” written by local Hakka author Kung Wan-Tsao (龔萬灶). Issues of ethnicity, love, and class are examined through lovers’ misunderstandings set largely in the much simpler 1930s period. The woodcutter Master Hwang’s first apprentice, Lee Mu-shen (李木生) (played by Hsu Hao-Hsiang), loves a poetic Hakka Figure 1.  The lovers look at each other under the umbrella in Xiangsi Nostalgia. (Photo: Courtesy of Hakka Affairs Council) 480 Performance Reviews girl, Liu Yu-chuan (滿妹, Manmei, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Xiangsi Nostalgia dir. by Lee Hsiao-Ping (review)

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Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 34 (2) – Aug 14, 2017
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Performance Reviews REFERENCES “chelfitsch: Time’s Journey through a Room.” 2016. Kyoto Experiment 2016. http://kyoto-ex.jp/2016-eng/program/ chelfitsch, accessed 18 July 2016. Eckershall, Peter. 2015. “Performance, Mourning and the Long View of Nuclear Space.” AsiaPacific Journal 13, issue 7, no. 2. XIANGSI NOSTALGIA. Directed by Lee Hsiao-Ping. National Theater, Taipei, Taiwan. 5 June 2016. Nine years after the first Hakka musical, a second, Xiangsi (Lovesickness) Nostalgia (香絲 相思) (2016) was staged in Taiwan. My Daughter’s Wedding (2007), an adaption of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, was the first and, like this new one, was produced by Taipei National University of the Arts and sponsored by Hakka Affairs Council. Xiangsi Nostalgia is different in that the script by playwright Lin Chien-Hua is taken from a Taiwanese short story, “Tung Flowers,” written by local Hakka author Kung Wan-Tsao (龔萬灶). Issues of ethnicity, love, and class are examined through lovers’ misunderstandings set largely in the much simpler 1930s period. The woodcutter Master Hwang’s first apprentice, Lee Mu-shen (李木生) (played by Hsu Hao-Hsiang), loves a poetic Hakka Figure 1.  The lovers look at each other under the umbrella in Xiangsi Nostalgia. (Photo: Courtesy of Hakka Affairs Council) 480 Performance Reviews girl, Liu Yu-chuan (滿妹, Manmei,

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