Taiwan, 1998, a foreign woman sits. After confessing to the murder of
her husband, her memories goes blank. In the interrogation room,
trauma brings illusion. Oppressed women and Medea dance, telling their
similarly unfair destinies. Myth and reality blending…She rages.In
the 1980s, with China’s reform and opening-up policy and the end of
martial law in Taiwan, cross-strait marriages began to grow. Yet
shaped by the unique political and historical tensions between the two
sides, mainland spouses in Taiwan—most of them women—found
themselves stripped of legal residency, isolated from social networks,
and often controlled by their partners.
Zhao is one of them, but she fought back. She killed her abusive
husband. Yet soon she will realize that killing him is not the end of
the nightmare—Endless interrogations, interviews, opening up her
wound. Exhausted, she falls into illusion, where she sees Medea—and
other women—dancing through a shared story of rage and sorrow.
Sometimes violence becomes the only path to liberation, but it comes
with a consequence. Discrimination, domestic violence, immigration
barriers, language isolation… When you are a women and you are an
immigrant.
Ages 16+ - 1hr
Location: McCadden Theatre (Main Space), 1157 N McCadden Place,
Hollywood, CA 90038
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[https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12069?tab=tickets]
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