In Honor of Local Culture: Theater Artist, Wang Rong-yu

Reporter/Provider - National Culture and Arts Foundation
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Wang Rong-yu was born into a Ke-Tse Opera family in 1960 in Taichung. In 1988, he started training in Lanlin Theatre Troupe and U-Theatre to become a performer. Since then, he has been working in theater for more than 30 years. His work deals with societal issues and opens new possibilities for theatrical performance in the boundaries between public and performance space. Wang has constructed an aesthetic sympathetic that valorizes and respects Taiwan’s much maligned Tai-Ke culture, which is usually seen as low-brow. and working class His works are aimed at the general public, and they distill the customs of common people and local cultural identity of the history, society, and life of Taiwan.


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