無獨有偶20週年藝術體驗市集
The 20th Anniversary of the Puppet & Its Double Theater
An experiential session on puppetry arts (Cancelled)
Open up your eyes and ears! Let us use our hands and body to experience the art residing in puppets. If there is something you would like to have, make one yourself!
This workshop recruited top-notch creative artists from different fields to set up various handicraft stalls. Visitors are invited to explore with their hands and appreciate from firsthand experiences the mesmerizing power of the puppets, discovering the unique charm of puppetry arts through fun and engaging activities.
The multifaceted experiential sessions and handicraft activities in this workshop are made possible by the collective efforts of the designers, artists, and creators with whom the Theater has collaborated.
Since its establishment in 1999 as the very first contemporary puppet theatre in Taiwan, Puppet & Its Double has been a pioneering force in the development of theatre arts. With more than ten years being included in Ministry of Culture’s long-term cultivation project, it has received several nominations at Taishin Arts Award with different works, while some made the shortlist of finalists, and has been invited to art festival in more than thirty cities at home and abroad around Europe, America, and Asia. It is one of the most iconic theatre companies in Taiwan.
Puppet & Its Double strongly believes that “everything can be a puppet,” as it makes great effort to expand the theatrical potentiality of puppetry in contemporary performing arts and to welcome every possible interdisciplinary experiment. It is particularly known for its exquisite puppet-making and design, while its performance ranges from glove puppet, string puppet, rod puppet, table-top puppet, shadow theatre, etc. By bringing actors and puppets together on stage and adopting a poetic theatrical language, it visualizes a world of imagination beyond what humans can do and fascinates us with its thought-provoking fantasy and transformative identities.
Puppet & Its Double moved its base from Taipei to Wujie, Yilan in 2013, where it turned the abandoned barns into Lìzé Puppet Art Colony, equipped with rehearsal studios, a puppet building workshop, and a small performance space. The aim of the art colony, as a major international platform for creative puppetry, is to offer domestic and foreign puppet artists a place to experiment and to exchange ideas, while it also organizes professional workshops regularly.
