Dot Go Theatre - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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The Little Old Man with His Friends

It’s a story about a little boy slowly becoming a lonely little old man.

The story might be too ordinary to notice, even though it happened so many times.

In this crowded city, lies a small house that time forgot, which is the only place that the little old man familiar with. In front the house is a scene of hustle and bustle, while in the crowd, nobody would stop for the old man, and no friends are for this man on the stairs.

When the spring comes, the little old man decides to leave the house and takes a walk in the park with blooming park.

He finds a lively puppy. There seems to be a privity between them: they come across each other every day at the same time and place. Then they play together. For now, the little old man finds himself a friend.

One day, like usual, the little old man goes to park, but finds his only friend is playing with a strange girl! And they seem to forget about him totally.

With a sense of loss, he goes back to the little house, closes the door, and let his heart hanged over by loneliness. Well, will our little old man be lonely for the rest of his life? Or, will he open his heart, again?

Team

  • Author: Barbro Lindgren
  • Script and Dramatization: Vera Stoykova, Shu-Ming Ju
  • Director: Vera Stoykova, Shu-Ming Ju
  • Music Design: Angel Georgiev
  • Puppets, Costumes, and Stage design: Adriana Dobreva

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About

Since 1985, Shu-Ming Ju has attend children’s and puppet theater performances, and has directed more than 30 children’s theater productions. He has been a Leader and Artistic Director of Song Song Song Children’s & Puppet Theatre, Artistic Director of China Little Orange Castle Micro Theatre, Artistic Director of Kaohsiung Children’s Art Education Festival and Director of Pupptry Art Center of Taipei.

Now he is General Executive and Artistic Director of Taiwan Dot Go Children’s Art Festival (TDGCAF), organized by the Association for Artistic Creativity and Education Development (AACED) The TDGCAF team emphasizes the educational elements in art as part of the global need for art-education linkage, international cooperation, through cultural exchange and development.

Mr. Shu – Ming Ju is a current President of Asia Alliance of Festivals and Theaters for Young Audiences (ATYA) – a platform uniting Asian festivals for children from Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines.

Taiwan Dot Go Theatre was established in 2019, “Dot Go Theater” mainly aims to develop dramas, performances, and education with professional experience and attitude based on humanism. The ultimate goal of Dot Go Theater is to become the educational and art base of Taiwan’s children and teenagers drama and creations in diverse art forms. Besides researching and developing independently, we accumulate creative energy through in-depth international exchange and transform the ordinary into humorous, creative, and poetic works that lead the audience to immerse in the new theater experiences full of creativities, and experiments.