Portrait of Dora

This play is adapted from“ Portrait of Dora”, a 1976 drama written by French feminist, scriptwriter, and novelist Hélène Cixous. The Chinese script is privileged to have personal authorization from Cixous herself. The play is filled with potentials in psychoanalytic research and feminist literary studies. The director of the play deconstructs the language and the scenes of the play and restructures it as a story of contemporary Taiwan, a time and space between the East and the West. The puppet is the key medium to the psychic world of the female character. It reaches deep into her multiple relationships with families and friends in her growth into adulthood. It also takes part in her complex life in the adult world and her interactions with the adults that have betrayed her. Through the subtle relations in which actors and puppets share the stage and the sparkles created in their interactions, the characters wander and cross between reality and sub-consciousness to explore the world of sexual desire deep inside a woman.

Premiere: Oct. 4, 2007 / Experimental theater, Taipei
Original: Hélène Cixous
Adaption/Director: Yu-hui FU