abstractSynopsis:
This play is adapted from Pin Lu's short fiction, "Ni Liu". The play spaned three different time periods. While a director of political theatre was directing a play of the fifties, a woman who used to be engaged in social movements in the eighties intruded and asked the director to put on a play about the social movements. The play, from this moment on, took on the contours of a mysterious detective play in a liminal situation where reality and illusion intersected;sexual war begins. Realistic acting, pure physical movements, and chanting could all be found in this play. The singer of "Baby Watching, Keng", Sheng-xiang Lin composed songs and sang for Zhong's poems"In This City", and "I". In addition, this play also adopted the Hakka chanting songs "Dirge for Crossing Taiwanese Strait", passed from Chin Dynasty and the songs, "The Battle Songs of Laborers" and "Requiem" were also inserted within the play.