\u201cThe Bathhouse of Honest Desires\u201d is a new public performance jointly written and directed by the up-and-coming Taiwanese playwright and director Chia-Ming Wang and Japan\u2019s Kuro Tanino, both of whom are currently garnering international attention at European international performing arts festivals. The two share a use of grandiose and elaborate set design; their language is slightly eccentric yet nostalgic, somehow removed yet tangible, a language of lasting impressions. Nevertheless, these two people from disparate cultures and languages have created a single mysterious story, along with unique and talented actors from Taiwan and Japan. The setting is a former public bathhouse. This bathhouse has been closed for a long time and is now a strange space overrun with cracks and aquatic plants. It is in this space that the women work. When darkness falls, the men come to visit. A dreamlike conversation ensues, one in which truths become indistinguishable from lies. Taking inspiration from Yasunari Kawabata\u2019s \u201cHouse of the Sleeping Beauties,\u201d a dreamlike, ephemeral, and mysterious story reveals itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe Bathhouse of Honest Desires\u201d is a new public performance jointly written and directed by the up-and-coming Taiwanese playwright and director Chia-Ming Wang and Japan\u2019s Kuro Tanino, both of whom are currently garnering international attention at European international performing arts festivals. The two share a use of grandiose and elaborate set design; their language is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9731,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"program_type":[5],"program_area":[7],"program_dates":[15,16],"program_tags":[221],"program_venue_type":[108],"program_genre":[189],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n