Collective Trance (after she stopped eating bananas) 集體恍惚(在她不吃香蕉以後)
Produced by Stumbling Ostrich in Mandarin.
Taipei Fringe Festival (Taiwan) in 2015. Trailer / Footage
-Frankly speaking, I don't like bananas.
-Woah! Then we should all give him a round of applause!
- What?? What is this for?
-Your courage. For the connection.
Anyone here who doesn't like to eat bananas?
Collective Trance (after she stopped eating bananas) is a devised work which discusses the inter-relationship between addiction to social media, fetishism, and existential anxiety. It invites the audience to take on a journey with a director and a group of unprofessional actors to unfold a mystery of a woman who stops using bananas and disappears in the crowd. As the play goes on, the ensemble struggles to understand the purpose of producing this play and gets distracted by bananas...
Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s idea of “the reality has died”, the play examines how people are depersonalized in representation. Collective Trance (after she stopped eating bananas) offers intimacy with audience , a fantasy in hyperreality, and a banana for everyone.
Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s idea of “the reality has died”, the play examines how people are depersonalized in representation. Collective Trance (after she stopped eating bananas) offers intimacy with audience , a fantasy in hyperreality, and a banana for everyone.
Director/Playwright: I-Chia Chiu
Producer: I-Chia Chiu, Nien-Yi Weng
Marketing: Nien-Yi Weng, Ya-Hsin Chiu
Ensemble: Kang-Tang Ho, Rou-Chun Lin, I-Da Lin, Yu-Jung Hsu, Yu-Wei Hsu
Stage Manager: Tzu-Wen Wang
Production Assistant: Yi-Kai Chen, I-Chun Tu
Assistant Director: Tzu-Wen Wang, Chien-Kai Tung
Sound Design:Ting-Chun Lin, Vicky Liao
Lighting Design: Fu-Chi Tsai, Ya-Wen Chen
Lighting Crew: Pei-Yu Yao, Chi-Ting Hsiung, Jun-Han Chen, Chen-Chou Cheng, Ping Hsuan Huang, Yu-Cheng Lin
Costume Design: Jia-Yin Yao
Stage Assistant: I-Wen Chiu,Yi-Kai Chen,Yu-Pei Lin
Trailer Director: Po-Yen Lin
Trailer Editing/Photography: Shih-Hsuan Kuo
Website Engineer: Ming-Zhen Cai
Graphic Design: Jay Guan Jie Peng
Special thanks: Yi-Kai Tan, who made this possible, and everyone who participated this project.
Photo Credits: 徐兆康、陳彥宏
Producer: I-Chia Chiu, Nien-Yi Weng
Marketing: Nien-Yi Weng, Ya-Hsin Chiu
Ensemble: Kang-Tang Ho, Rou-Chun Lin, I-Da Lin, Yu-Jung Hsu, Yu-Wei Hsu
Stage Manager: Tzu-Wen Wang
Production Assistant: Yi-Kai Chen, I-Chun Tu
Assistant Director: Tzu-Wen Wang, Chien-Kai Tung
Sound Design:Ting-Chun Lin, Vicky Liao
Lighting Design: Fu-Chi Tsai, Ya-Wen Chen
Lighting Crew: Pei-Yu Yao, Chi-Ting Hsiung, Jun-Han Chen, Chen-Chou Cheng, Ping Hsuan Huang, Yu-Cheng Lin
Costume Design: Jia-Yin Yao
Stage Assistant: I-Wen Chiu,Yi-Kai Chen,Yu-Pei Lin
Trailer Director: Po-Yen Lin
Trailer Editing/Photography: Shih-Hsuan Kuo
Website Engineer: Ming-Zhen Cai
Graphic Design: Jay Guan Jie Peng
Special thanks: Yi-Kai Tan, who made this possible, and everyone who participated this project.
Photo Credits: 徐兆康、陳彥宏