2026臺北藝術節：創作社劇團《孃孃狂言》

> 北藝中心場館全新功能！不知如何選位嗎？請來點它：劇院視線模擬 【藝術家介紹】 創作社劇團 1997年成立於臺北，強調劇場原創精神，探索新的劇場美學風格，嘗試不同創作組合。迄今製作34齣作品，豐沛題材內容及形式，精彩體現臺灣現代劇場的多元美學創意，多年來屢獲各界高度肯定，曾四度入圍臺灣唯一表演藝術獎項台新藝術獎，榮獲第三屆首獎；三度入選國藝會「表演藝術 追求卓越」專案、「精華再現」專案；獲文化部「科技與表演藝術結合旗艦計畫」及「 跨域合創計畫」補助專案。作品分別應邀於臺灣國際藝術節 (TIFA)、臺北藝術節 (TAF)、新加坡國際藝術節 (SIFA)、高雄春天藝術節 (KSAF)、上海亞洲當代戲劇季 (ACTF)、臺北-北京兩岸城市藝術節、北京兩岸小劇場藝術節、上海國際五城市民戲劇展演等地演出。   編導｜周慧玲 國立中央大學英文系特聘教授 1997年取得美國紐約大學表演研究所博士返臺，聯手創建臺北創作社劇團至今近三十年。2003年建置並經營臺灣現代戲劇暨表演影音資料庫十七年。2014年發起並主持全球泛華青年劇本創作競賽，迄今舉辦八屆競賽。   她左手創作，右手論述，是少數兼具劇場編導和學術研究的知識性劇場藝術創作者。她的學術研究範疇廣泛而前沿，從性別表演到文化政策研究乃至於數位藝術；她的戲劇創作以深邃的歷史風貌以及多樣的形式見長，她的導演手法尤其細膩而能優游與先鋒和通俗之間。其原創戲劇作品獲德、英、中文學術論文專文討論，收入各地學術專書與期刊中。   編劇導演代表作如《少年金釵男孟母》獲選臺灣《聯合報》觀眾票選「十大錯過可惜」優秀戲劇演出；《記憶相簿》與《不三不四到臺灣》以小劇場形式暢銷，多次巡迴臺灣多個城市乃至北京上海；受邀擔任《蔣公的面子3.0》版導演迄今巡迴演出逾兩百場。其他編導作品如《天亮以前我要你》、《Click，寶貝兒》、《百衲食譜》（創作社劇團，2000-2018）；編劇《玉茗堂私夢》（拾念劇集，2009）、《百年戲樓》（國光劇團，聯合編劇，2010）、《簡吉奏鳴曲—零落成泥香如故》（高雄文化局 ∕ 衛武營開幕藝術節，2018）、《魂顛記》（衛武營主辦，2020-2022；劇場及電影版）、以及導演作品《驚異派對》、《影癡謀殺》（創作社劇團，2003，2005），其中《蔣公的面子3.0》（南京）巡演至今逾600場。   【演職人員名單】 製作暨演出團隊｜創作社劇團 製作人｜R.H. Studio 執行製作人｜嚴安琪 編  導｜周慧玲 演員｜徐堰鈴、黃宇琳 *、呂曼茵、吳維緯、大甜、林子恆 燈光設計｜黃諾行 服裝造型設計｜謝介人 音樂設計｜陳建騏 舞台設計｜陳慧 戲劇構作｜郭踐紅 顧問｜王安祈、洪芳怡、曹路生 攝影｜陳又維 主視覺設計｜童維崇 * (現為國光劇團團員) 由臺北表演藝術中心與新加坡濱海藝術中心共同製作 共製單位：臺北表演藝術中心、新加坡濱海藝術中心 共同主辦：臺北市政府、臺北表演藝術中心 【About the Performance】 "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still." -- William Shakespeare The 1940s marked an era of separation from loved ones and homelands.  The end of WWII did not bring the expected peace; instead, it was followed by fierce civil wars and political turbulence all over the world.  Kimberly Hsu and Evelyn Huang, two young women in their prime, fled the intoxicated jazz scene in Shanghai to join the diaspora in Taiwan – though for very different reasons.  Rather than running away from the flames of war, it was “marriage,” the destined cage imposed on women for centuries, that urged them to go…and stay.    More than half a century later, a forgotten suitcase that contained well-kept vinyl records and a family chronology revealed the two women’s mysterious past to their descendants: the adopted niece, the nephew’s wife, and the grandniece.  Between the five women across three generations, memory takes the form of delusional murmurs from Kimberly (or perhaps it is the other way around), who now lingers at the threshold of death.  Trapped by dementia, she speaks to the ghost of Evelyn and to her own past, revisiting the intimate sisterhood she shared with her classmate Evelyn and the charming jazz singer Mei-Lan.  Together, they concocted a plan for Evelyn to escape her arranged marriage and boarded a ship toward a new life with the two young children Mei-Lan eventually left behind. Katherine Hui-ling Chou, playwright and director of She Says, She Says, is renowned for her delicate approach to female experiences beyond grand nationalist narratives, while she often plays with gender ambiguity and challenges conventional definitions of “family.”  Her most prestigious work He is my Wife, He is my Mother (2009), based on a 350-year-old short story, is a gender-subversive fantasy that delves into lesbian undertones and male homosexuality, transcending bloodlines to redefine kinship.   Her other iconic works include Have Wok, Will Travel, which uses a metaphorical recipe journal to narrate the memory of a group of Taiwanese female soldiers in the late 1950s who chose military over traditional family roles; the biological Jian Ji – A Just Life that tells the story of a little-known labor activist and anti-colonialist during the Japanese Occupation; and the novel adaptation The Apocalypse of Fudingjin – The Secrets Stolen by Five Ghost Children, which weaves magic realism into the history of a deserted public cemetery.   Chou’s collaboration with the Singapore-based Siong Leng Musical Association and Esplanade, The Heart of Jun: Memoirs of Zhaojun, that tells the voyage of three women leaving China for Southeast Asia via a fusion of contemporary theatre and traditional Nanguan music, also earned critical acclaim at its Singapore premiere.     Following Katherine Chou’s continuous exploration of gender, female bonding, non-blood family, diaspora, and the complexities of histories, She Says, She Says employs old Shanghai jazz tune On Separate Roads to juxtapose memory with present reality.  Its non-linear storyline and mixture of languages expand into a dreamlike presence that transcends national or geographical boundaries.  The production features Taiwan's most celebrated stage talents: the acclaimed Taiwanese actress Hsu Yen-Ling and Peking Opera star Huang Yu-Lin take the roles of Kimberly and Evelyn, who share a life and family from Shanghai to Taiwan beyond what a heterosexual marriage can offer; their undefined yet authentic relationship shed light on the younger generations, played by Wu Wei-Wei, Datian, Lin Zi-Heng, and Lu Man-Yin. “This road is too bleak, and that road is too tense, but I find no better place, and I am on the road every day”—the Shanghai jazz tune lingers, as the diasporic souls finally find a home. 【Artist Profile】 Creative Society Theatre Group Founded in 1997, Creative Society Theatre Group brings together leading talents in theatre and media to create original theatre productions that explore new aesthetic possibilities while addressing contemporary social issues.  The diverse backgrounds of its founders – among whom are pioneering Japanese theatre artists including Chi Wei-Jan, Katherine Hui-Ling Chou, Wei Ying-Chuan, Li Huan-Hsiung – enrich an artistic vocabulary that spans from the clever play of everyday language in its debut production Mahjong Game (1997), to the exquisite fusion of traditional and modern theatre in He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother (2009). Over its nearly thirty-year journey, by expanding its artist collaborators, Creative Society Theatre Group has continued to pursue different artistic styles that embody a multicultural Taiwan while transcending existing boundaries.  Many of its productions have earned critical and commercial acclaim, including the 2005 Taishin Arts Award in Performing Arts for Who-ga-sha-ga, and have been widely supported multiple times by the Ministry of Culture’s flagship and interdisciplinary co-creation projects.  Beyond domestic festivals, the group has toured extensively across the Sinophone world, with invitations to the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), ACT Shanghai Contemporary Theatre Festival, Taipei-Beijing Cross-Strait Arts Festival, among others.    Katherine Hui-ling Chou Katherine Hui-ling Chou bridges the academic and creative worlds through her multifaceted work as a director, playwright, scholar, and professor.  In 1997, Chou co-founded Creative Society Theatre Group, through which she presented I Love You, I Love You Not (2000)—a production integrating performance theory and gender performativity to explore love, pleasure, and gender crossing. Since then, the interplay between gendered experiences, social realities, and historical narratives has always been her focus, as reflected in her later works, including to be AND not to be: a dark fantasy about formosa, part two (2005), He is my Wife, He is my Mother (2006), Have Wok, Will Travel (2011), Jian Ji: A Just Life (2018), The Apocalypse of Fudingjin (2020), among others.  As a director, she has also collaborated with Taiwan’s prestigious GuoGuang Opera Company, bringing a contemporary perspective to the traditional art form.    In 2014, Katherine Hui-ling Chou initiated the World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights to facilitate artistic exchange across the Sinophone world, reaching as far as the diaspora in Canada, the USA, and the UK.  She is currently Professor in the Department of English at National Central University, specializing in cultural policies, gender performance, and digital archiving for performing arts, where she also founded and directs Electronic Theatre Intermix in Taiwan, a digital archive of the contemporary theatre in Taiwan since 1980s.  【Creative and Production Team】 Production and Performance Team | Creative Society Theatre Group Production | R.H. Studio Executive Producer | Yan An-Qi Playwright & Director｜ Katherine Hui-ling Chou Cast | Hsu, Yen-Ling, HUANG Yu-lin *, Man-Yin LU, WU,WEI-WEI, Datian, Lin Zi-Heng Lighting Designer | HUANG No-hsing Costume Designer | HSIEH Chieh-jen Music Designer | CHEN Chien-chi Stage Designer | CHEN Hui Dramaturgy | Kuo Jian Hong Consultants｜Wang An-chi, Hung Fang Yi, Cao Lu Sheng Photography｜Chen,You-Wei Key Visual Design｜Weichungtung * Currently a member of the Guoguang Opera Company of the National Center for Traditional Arts. She Says, She Says is co-commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center and Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. Organizer: Taipei City Government and Taipei Performing Arts Center