Come with TAP-Chicago on November 22nd to see one of the last performances of The Hundred Flowers Project!
THE PLAY
Digital media becomes the perfect “ally” for a group of actors collectively creating a play about Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution. As their work-in-progress starts morphing into a propaganda play about the play itself, disturbing questions arise as to who, or what, is controlling the narrative.
Statement from Playwright Christopher Chen:
The Hundred Flowers Project is my big, multimedia fantasia on the Cultural Revolution in China. With heavy use of modern technology, the piece explores the state of mind of Mao’s regime by melding it with our own Facebook age, ultimately finding a shared, crazed selfmythologizing ethos in both. To really capture the vertiginous, careening, propagandic feel of the Cultural Revolution, I decided to make this a visceral piece of theater with all cylinders firing, embracing spectacle and a kaleidoscopic, continuously shifting structure. I love plays that take audiences on an emotional and intellectual roller coaster, plays that disorient and startle as a means of opening up hidden levels of insight.
Reviews:
”“Flowers” revels in a mixed-media meta-theatricality that unfolds its unexpected twists with sharp clarity.”
– Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2012
“Chen’s vision — linking the power of Mao’s reign with Facebook’s dominance — is at once hilariously satirical and ominous.”
– Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner, November 1, 2012
“Chen’s new play is an extremely challenging work whose theatrical concept is framed by a mash-up of emerging technology that will leave you with plenty of food for thought.”
– George Heymont, Huffington Post, November 10, 2012
Video
http://vimeo.com/61778413
COST
Silk Road Rising has kindly offered us discounted tickets at $30 per person. Use promo code: TAPChicago
TICKETS
Please purchase tickets here:
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9931283
TRANSPORTATION
Theater is close to CTA Lake, Washington/Wells, Clark/Lake stops.
Questions? Contact us.
Candice Kao | candice at tapchicago dot org | 832.390.8832
Kelly Chen | kelly at tapchicago dot org | 408.480.6408