V-Day Taipei 2008/V to the 10th
【The Vagina Monologues】Chinese production
Written by Eve Ensler, Translated by Nick Yu
Producer: Maggie Q, Success Zheng
Director: Nancy Chen(Short One Player)
Directing Assistant: Pei-Yu Wang
Time: 3/14(Fri.)7:30 pm( door opened at 7:00 pm)
3/15(Sat.)7:30 pm( door opened at 7:00 pm)
Venue: Taipei City Hall Family Theater
( 2F., No.1, ShiFu Rd.)
Cost: NT＄500
【Reading: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant , and a Prayer】English production
Audience encouraged to bring cushions for seating.
Director: Holly Harrington
Time: 3/7(Fri.)7:00 pm( door opened at 6:30 pm)
3/8(Sat.)7:00 pm( door opened at 6:30 pm)
Venue: Xinyi Citizen Assembly Hall
(House D, No.56, SongQin St.)
Cost: NT＄300
Content: This book is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle. The works were commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festival, which took place June 2006 in New York City. Beyond the time constraint of five minutes or less and the theme of women and violence, each monologue was for the writer to realize. No constructs, restrictions, or rules. A fantasy of a world where there is no violence. A poem about the physics of a slap. A memory. These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. Together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence against women affects every one of us. A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women.V-Day Taipei’s staged readings of A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer will be conducted in English, without subtitles.
【Film: Until the Violence Stops】English with Chinese subtitles
Audience encouraged to bring cushions for seating.
Time: 3/6（Thu.）7:00 pm( door opened at 6:30 pm)
Venue: Xinyi Citizen Assembly Hall
(House D, No.56, SongQin St.)
Cost: NT＄200
Content: Until The Violence Stops features playwright and activist Eve Ensler in a powerful film that documents how The Vagina Monologues grew into an international grassroots movement called V-Day to stop violence against women and girls. Until the Violence Stops shows women from Harlem to Ukiah, California; from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Philippines and Kenya, uniting and courageously revealing their intimate and deeply painful experiences with abuse ranging from rape to female circumcision. More than just testimonies and performances, Until The Violence Stops is a film about empowerment and the importance of dialogue in the healing process. A celebration of women reclaiming their bodies and lives, this moving documentary leaves us with hope that change can happen.V-Day Taipei’s showing of Until the Violence Stops will feature English dialogue with Chinese subtitles.
Short One Player—a theater of thinking and acting
Since founded in 2003, Short One Player has been devoting to establish deep communication with audience, criticizing and discussing different kinds of social issues, considering what to do to change the current situation, and to do deep, introspective thinking and discussing with audience by using performing and language of theater. Short One Player tries to pour distinct and fresh vitality into Taiwan’s theater, with innovative performance, life-caring thesis in our creation and also in people we care; with theater practice that especially belongs to Taiwan, to new generation, and to professionals, standing in theater and opening the gates (or window) of communication.
Chronological list of our works
2003: “Home, Journey and Dilemma”
Scriptwriter and director: Derrick Wei and Shi-Qing Wang
Venue: Fu-Jen Catholic University
2003: “Home, Sweet Home”
Scriptwriter and director: Derrick Wei, Shi-Qing Wang
Venue: Guling St. Avant-Garde Theatre
2004: “The Movement of Spring”
Scriptwriter and director: Wei-Yu Chen
Venue: Fu-Jen Catholic University
2005: “The Hungry Girl—Why I Never Get Full”
Scriptwriter and director: Nancy Chen, Derrick Wei, and all the performers
Venue: Taipei Crown Theater
2006: “The Woman in the Lane”
Scriptwriter and director: Derrick Wei, Nancy Chen and Wei-Yu Chen
Venue: Hua-Shan Art Center
2007, July: “A Hundred Ways Home—Be Strong! Sperm”
Scriptwriter and director: Nancy Chen
Venue: Fundraising Soiree of Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association
2007, September: “A Hundred Ways Home”
Scriptwriter and director: Nancy Chen
Venue: Taipei Crown Theater
2007, November: “A Hundred Ways Home—Taitung Version”
Scriptwriter and director: Nancy Chen
Venue: Taitung Theater
