A Journey towards Sentiment (kanshooryokoo)─My Endless Melancholy Becomes Siberia Comprised of Oblivion After You Left for the Southern Villages interweaves the life pursuit of CHEN Ying-Zhen as a novelist, his fictional characters, and theatre practitioner M in a skillful manifestation of the aesthetic succession and transformation of Taiwan’s contemporary theatre. TSUEI Tai-Hao’s precise, energetic, and self-contained solo performance is complemented by stage designer WU Zi-Jing’s attempt to unfold the multiplicity of the space in the Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre. Director LI Huan-Hsiung presents the interwoven relationship of his life journey with the little theatre movement and left-wing historical contexts in Taiwan, and introspectively explores the ideals and disillusions of the avant-garde and modernity. In a poetic, refined fashion, LI enacts the dialectics between the multiple images of "South" and the inner "North" until the “whale fall.”

This is an exquisitely refined solo performance, which transforms fully the limited space of the 1^st-floor experimental theater of the Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre into a space that extends imagination both in width and depth. The performance unfolds with a layered delivery of director LI Huan-Hsiung’s poetry and prose, while paying tribute to the important mentor of Taiwan literature, CHEN Ying-Zhen, weaving out a “kanshooryokoo” (literally, “sentimental trip”) that traverses through multiple imageries of the south. Revisiting the context of the left-wing history in Taiwan, the work is a theatrical work, a literary piece, and a political inquiry. What makes the work even more special is that although it is a one-man show, it avoids a narcissistic sense of self-indulgence, and at the same time retraces critically the ideal and loss of the avant-garde and modernity, offering both a testimonial interpretation as well as a splendid translation of the languages of different generations. (Commentator/TSAI Pei-Kuei)

A Journey towards Sentiment (Kanshooryokoo) —My Endless Melancholy Becomes Siberia Comprised of Oblivion After You Left for the Southern Villages is a solo theatrical journey, a narrative as well as a performance posited between documentary theater and the switches among multilayered monologues. It originates from a large-scale but disrupt theater project known as Hsu-Nan-Tsuen (Southern Village Promised). Due to the halt of the previous project, this monodrama that has already existed carries a higher density of texture and, with the failure of the work in reality, re-aligns the loneliness and courage of one (or multiple) “author(s)” in this era filled with all sorts of opinions but fewer and fewer ideas. The work delineates how passion wanes but, like a whale fall, retains a glimmer of expectation and nutrients for regeneration.

Mr. Wing Theatre Company was founded in 2006, by LI Huan-Hsiung, once a vital member of the Rive-Gauche Theatre Group and Creative Society. With new members and a new name, the theatre company inherits the Rive-Gauche Theatre Group’s poetic “theatre of imagery” and avant-garde aesthetics. These are combined with the medium-sized theatre developed by Creative Society, along with its emphasis on the practical and spiritual purposes of scripts and experiences in developing works of musical, opera, and cross-genre multimedia production, to craft a fresh platform that has no limit in terms of scale, and values both performance caliber and a strong style.