Although Ren Jian Bao puppet theater is officially on hiatus, we thought it would be fun to teach this workshop at the Chia Nan University in Tainan County. The students are going to go up to Taipei this month to participate in the big Dream Parade, and me and Yuchi helped them create their parade team. We made 9 big masks and a bunch of props. I've been reading up on Taiwan history, so the concept is based on local Tainan history--a team of giant head 17th century dutch clowns. They arrive in Tainan in 1624 and start doing what the 17th century dutch did best--build forts, bully the locals, buy and sell stuff, try to tax everyone they can, and teach their stupid religion to the aboriginals. Our big head dutch have a cow with them pulling a cart full of big blocks which they use to build a fort, and then Jheng Chenggong shows up and boots their asses outta here in 1662. We made all this stuff in just 8 days. I'm really proud of these kids--I taught them a lot of new stuff, using a lot of unfamiliar materials--they had never done anything like this before, and we really made some beautiful things and had a lot of fun. They are going to have a really strong parade team with lots of history and lots of shtick. Ja yo!
雖然我們搬家了,也不作戲, 不過前兩天剛結束一個工作坊,
幫助嘉南藥理大學的學生, 在短短短短短八天內,
設計了他們要去台北夢想嘉年華遊行的主題.
以台南歷史鄭成功趕跑荷蘭人為故事. 做了面具服裝等等.
很短ㄋㄟ, 才八天ㄋㄟ, 學生每天利用晚上到午夜做的,
而且他們完全沒有經驗, 第一次接觸玉米粉的魔力.
但很可愛不是嗎！？
