The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York is pleased to announce the musical reading of Tropical Angels, a new work written by award-winning Taiwanese playwright Lin Meng-Huan with music composed by New York-based composer Sheng Lei. The reading will be live-streamed on HowlRound TV on November 11, 2020.
Tropical Angels is adapted from National Award for Arts recipient Chen Qian-Wu’s autobiographical novel, Coming Back Alive, which tells the story of a young Taiwanese man in search of his soul after the Pacific War. The musical is developed into Chinese and English versions concurrently to explore the various possibilities of translated theatre.
On November 10, a panel of theatre artists and specialists from Taiwan, Korea, and the US will gather to discuss how Western-dominated musical theatre has been adapted in Asian theatres.
The events are co-presented by Taipei Cultural Center in New York, Musical Theatre Factory and HowlRound TV.
Illustration by H. Chia