“ You will see an entire cityscape rise up in the intimate space of the black box”
When traveling, we would pack our luggage with personal comfort items we require daily. Upon reaching the new destination, we spend a considerable time adjusting our minds and habits to assimilate into the unfamiliar environment.
What items would we pack in our luggage if we had embarked on a holiday in an all-too familiar place that is our home? How would I sieve out and select items that would go into this luggage; for me, this bag is not a mere tool or accessory but one that contains our sentiments and secrets buried in our subconscious.
Trekking in our home city then, I imagine that we must be belabored with this baggage, shaped and informed by societal expectations and conditions; they form ‘cases’ that we are boxed in; and we are made to suit those ‘cases’ that our environment has imposed.
This performance is a way of unpacking the emotional baggage and psyche that are trapped inside the minds of city dwellers.
I will be using a tapestry of visual mediums such as puppets, body language to paint a visceral performance that is allegorical and theatrical. I like the use of imageries in theatre. A picture paints a thousand words. For example, audiences will see an entire cityscape spanning the intimate space of the black box.
My co-devisors have been working with me since 0501. This working relationship has gotten us through 0501, where we delved into themes of interpersonal relationships, to this present project (humanity in an urban jungle).
I hope the audiences could share this theatrical exploration with us with an adventurous spirit and open mind. The intimacy that our venue (Drama Centre blackbox) provides to this project would enable both performers and audiences rediscover a love for theatre that does not provide mere entertainment, but one that also engages and evokes the imagination and buried in our subconscious.
每一次旅行，自己的行李箱里总会带着让自己舒服的日常生活用品。而每到一个全新的地方，自己也总会花很长的时间去调整自己既有的思考模式和生活习性，以便适应陌生的外在环境。
于是我在想象，如果自己必须在自己熟悉得再也不能熟悉的城市里进行一次旅行，我身旁的那只行李箱里会装着什么样东西？我又会如何取决和筛选出应该或愿意袭带的记忆和内容？行李箱，似乎不仅仅是工具或配件而已，我们每一个人的每一只行李箱里，都隐藏了一些连自己都无法察觉或不经意忽略到的秘密和情感。
在城市里游走，行李箱里将继续装进更多的意识形态和生活法则，那是为了存活而必然有的妥协和屈服。为了融入一座城市的生态（suit those "cases"），人好像反而成为了自己行李箱的附属。这个演出，要探讨的就是城市人的行李箱里，究竟装了什么样“情感包袱”和“意识形态”。
我喜欢表演艺术里的两个重要元素：意象化和实验性。意象化：我觉得很多东西无需运用太多语言去“说明”、“刻画”和“解释”，所以这一次将运用更多的形体语汇、物件隐喻和戏偶铺陈，以非传统戏剧手段去堆积意象和剧场空间。现在可以透露的是，你将看到一座城市如何在小剧场里出现。
自己总觉得小剧场必须回归小剧场原先应该有的特质和理念，即“实验性”，而非“娱乐性”或“服务性”，所以这一次我更在意的是这批和我一起探究“城市与人”这个主题的每一个创作者，有没有完成自己的“发现”、“自省”和“表态”。担心看不懂的人，请记得带着看“实验性表演”，而不是看“叙述性故事”的心态前来吧。
这一次将延续《0501》创作的意念——集体创作，即每一个台前幕后的表演者和设计师都是“文本”的开始；而不同的主要是《0501》的主题是人与人，而《行旅纪事》的主题是人与城市。
还有一个正在实验开发的创作内容是：身体和环境的关系。
另外，我自己给自己的功课是：作为导演，我尽可能提醒自己做到“引导”和“演化”这两件事。
我是这个制作的另外一双眼睛，我们整个制作群是城市的另外一双眼睛，等着你们的凝视。
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