Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs

This is a transformation of stories.

Imagination giving birth to stories,

Stories nesting within stories,

Weaving, coupling, multiplying and renewing themselves.

Between one narrative and the next,

New beginnings and endings emerge,

Ever continuing, never complete.

Following the success of ​Blood & Rose Ensemble ​(2018), Oliver Chong from The Finger Players (Singapore) and Wang Chia-Ming from Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (Taiwan) return to ​Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts​ with a brand-new original collaboration​ ​ ​Tall Tales: Bananas and Ang Ku Kuehs​.

Inspired by ​The Decameron​, ​Tall Tales ​reimagines folk tales from the collaborators’ native cultures. From The Snake Prince to Princess Tailan, snake to monkey, bananas to ang ku kuehs, these stories transfigure into strange new narratives where man, myth, and mortality intertwine in matter and form, exploring the coexistence between humans and nature through an interplay of live performance and puppetry.

Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs is commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and Taipei Performing Arts Center, and co-produced by The Finger Players (Singapore) X Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (Taiwan).

For further enquiries, please contact 6828 8377.