abstractSynopsis:
This play adapts Xiang-yang Deng's novel, The Pursuit of Deer at Shui Sha-Lian: Legendary Series of Sun Moon Lake, and concerns itself at self-reflex in relation to memory, history, myth and human-nature relationship. An anthropologist is entrapped in sadness because his wife died young. Despite suffering from narcolepsy, he has a vision in the midst of his dream: he and his wife did field study together and converse with the legendary white deer beside the lake of Shui Sha-Lian (Sun Moon Lake). The play is interspersed with the legend of "pursuit of deer" of the Thao tribe. The tribe found the resourceful and beautiful Sun Moon Lake and moved to the region when pursuing the white deer. The anthropologist's love for his wife echoes the love story of Thao tribe, Water Moon (a couple commit suicide for love).