A fable is a metaphor for human society with simple and easy-to-understand animal stories . . . Wei’s work includes tales of war, the environment, and personal regret colliding as mankind hurtles towards a surreal apocalypse in the company of a disputatious duck, a sleuth of bears, and an exceptional chicken.
—Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen, Performing International Plays

[Wei Yu-Chia’s play] uses ridicule and absurdity to point out ignorance and shortcomings of humanity towards environmental ethics.
— Guo Qiang-Sheng, ARTalks

Full of language and yet ambiguous in meaning, full of flesh and yet rebelling against the human body, # ends with the director telling us a story in voiceover, and asking the audience, but what moral can we draw from all this? When all of contemporary culture and civilization is just another face on the sand that will be wiped away, what moral can there be? But then what is precious about theater is a concrete starting point rooted in a problem, isn't it? — Li Shi-Yong, Pareviews

How can we coax meaning and happiness out of our brief time on this dying planet? When the dust settles, only one human being is left alive in the world — but is he blessed or cursed to have survived?

Images courtesy of Creative Society from their production at the Wellspring Theater in Taipei. Photos by Chen Yi-Tang.

An introduction to the play by Wei Yu-Chia

Drawing by Biba Kayewich

As a talented writer who created poetry since elementary school and fiction during middle school, Wei launched her journey into playwriting after she moved from rural Taiwan to Taipei to study at NTU [National Taiwan University].
—Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen, Performing International Plays

Wei Yu-Chia has written five award-winning plays. She lives in Taipei, Taiwan.

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