Hollywood Fringe Festival - Her Rage

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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