Where are the people? People’s Theater in Inter-Asian Societies

Where Are the People?

How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form of

Theatrical Aesthetics?

At That Time, the Audience Really Stood Up.

In this evening, theater practitioners initiated the conversation with physical action. They engage with contemporary issues through their unique performance styles. From a discursive context, they enter the scene of resistance and undertake the labor of performance. Their performance is not just the preface to a series of dialogues, but also a witness to thirty years of People’s Theater.


“People’s theater” belongs to the people.

It is the theater created by the people and speaks for the people as it has appeared in history in diverse forms.

People theater in Inter-Asian Societies began to grow in a cross-region, which included Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Busan, Maputo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hualien, Taichung, and Taipei. Through the writings and images written down by theatrical artists from these spaces, we can figure out the body aesthetics that carry historical conflicts and the experience to find the form and channel of expression, and continue for work of thinking and creation.