2014 TIFA 台灣國際藝術節 Taiwan International Festival of Arts

PAI Hsien-yung’s gay classic to be presented on the stage

For the kids who have nowhere to go but wander alone in the darkest nights

Crystal Boys, PAI Hsien-yung’s classic novel depicting the marginalized status of gay community in Taiwan in the 1970s, is now adapted for the stage in Chinese for the first time. The story surrounds the passionate love affair between a gay couple, the most entangling father-and-son relations in the Chinese society. By the stream of consciousness, the director ingeniously interweaves the present and the past the reality and the imagination for the stage, presenting the love and lust, life and death, and repentance and redemption from the original novel. The audiences will be led to the never-dawning Kingdom of Darkness with the joys and sorrows of those outcasts renounced by their families and expelled from the society.

The cast features intergeneration actors and actresses outstanding in the theaters but also the television and the films, including Golden Bell Award winners as well as promising youth actors and actresses. The music, the theme song, and choreography all are created by the outstanding artist in the Chinese society.