Tag: Drama Convention
How to Use T.I.E. Skill to Tell History – Use the Play Opening the Gate in 1895 as Example｜DaTEAsia Vol. 1
This paper will focus on how to use T.I.E skills to tell the history during the colonization of Japan. In 1895, due to the failure in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki in which Taiwan was ceded to Japan and became a Japanese colony. The play Opening the Gate in 1895 uses the form of T.I.E to tell the story of this disturbing period. In the play, some interactive theatre skills from T.I.E, such as role play, meeting, image theatre, and hot-seating, are used in the process of the performance for presenting the major issues at the time, such as dilemma of Taiwanese people at the time—whether they should open the gate and allow the Japanese Army to enter the city or not, and the issue about the confusion of Taiwanese identity.
