DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
UPCOMING TRAIN/STOPPED CLOCK/UNTITLED WAITING
Theater for the New City
August 2013
Dream Up Festival Features Upcoming Train/Stopped Cock/Untitled Waiting — Asian In NY
August 24, 2013
Upcoming Train/Stopped Cock/Untitled Waiting attempts to enact the western classics through the embodiment of eastern philosophy. From Taiwan to China to Japan to United States, all artists contribute to bring in the eastern philosophical viewpoint to manifest the very essence of this play: other than waiting, will there be any other possibilities that we can manage to create?
90% of the production team consisted of Taiwanese artists. We are so happy to see so many Asian artists who are now involved with theater work and productions. Bravo!
UPCOMING TRAIN/STOPPED CLOCK/UNTITLED WAITING Set for Dream Up Festival, 8/24-30 — Broadway World
August 8, 2013
Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting aims to reflect on how "Godot" has affected our lives for the past 60 years, and to go back to the very essence of the ridicule of repetition, time, in order to find another answer for the contemporary society. The meaning of time has to be redefined so that human existence can be scrutinized. Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting is a manifesto of the ritual of waiting, presented by four characters in representation of the general public and artists. The ritual, addressed upon life/death and reality/illusion, will be shown by paronomasia within the conversation, by metatheatre, by the interaction among the animate beings (characters) and the inanimate beings (mannequins), and by the embodiment of the sufferings from the ritual itself to accent the timelessness of the action and the ridicule of the action itself.
Theater for the New City Presents《Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting》Written & Directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li — Taipei Cultural Center in New York
Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting inspired by Waiting for Godot, is the reflection on society presented in the western classics through the eastern and Buddhist philosophy. This play will examine the absurdity of quotidian life as well as artistic life with an aim to reflect on how “Godot” has affected our lives for the past 60 years, and to go back to the very essence of the ridicule of repetition, time, in order to find another answer for the contemporary society. The meaning of time has to be redefined so that human existence can be scrutinized. Upcoming Train/Stopped Clock/Untitled Waiting is a manifesto of the ritual of waiting, presented by four characters in representation of the general public and artists. It attempts to enact the western classics through the embodiment of the eastern philosophy. From Taiwan to China to Japan to United States, all artists contribute to bring in the eastern philosophical viewpoint to manifest the very essence of this play: other than waiting, will there be any other possibilities that we can manage to create?
