The Tempest was performed in Seoul, South Korea September 4-6, 2009 as part of the 3rd annual World Festival of National Theaters, which ran from September 4 to November 4, 2009.
See also the 2004 premiere and the 2008 performance.
In Putonghua (or Mandarin) with Chinese and English surtitles. See also the 2004 staging of The Tempest directed by Tsui Hark and Wu Hsing-kuo.
News article about The Tempest production scheduled for the 2008 New Vision Arts Festival, held from Oct. 23 to Nov. 23, 2008.
More details about the October 24-25 performances of The Tempest at the 2008 New Vision Arts Festival.
Co-directed by Wu Hsing-kuo and the Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark, the Tempest combined jingju, kunju, and Taiwan’s aboriginal dance, with a cinematic visual language to comment on the tension between the aboriginals and mainland Chinese immigrants to the island of Taiwan. Read More
