In 2022, Danny Yung and Mathias Woo will develop The Eleventh Year of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which will be presented to the audience in an unprecedented new form. Zuni’s One Hundred Years of Solitude series has been a cycle, an accumulation and a history of collective creation since 1982. Creating with reference to this 40-year accumulation and history is inevitably full of challenges and unknowns, but at the same time, there are various experimental possibilities.
Danny Yung once said in his creative notes: “the most profound inspiration given by One Hundred Years of Solitude, not only the endless, interlocking feelings, but also something that every character and every paragraph in the book has the gesture of getting up from the ground for the first time and standing firmly on both feet, and then obstinately moving forward step by step, full of vitality, walking a path that belongs most to yourself, independent, but doomed to eternal solitude.”
Today, the concept of experimentation is constantly changing. In this age of abundant materials, rapid technological development and flourishing of art, the challenge faced by Zuni is to find a new definition and direction for experimentation. One of the directions is to explore the meaning of experimentation through reconstruction of the classics, and through literature, introspection and questioning. As the 2022 Season’s finale, The Birth of Tragedy is a new experimental performance about Nietzsche, Eastern and Western tragedies, and Wagner’s music. Inspired by Nietzsche’s book The Birth of Tragedy, Danny Yung will discourse on tragic culture, its deconstruction and reconstruction, and carry out cross-generational creation with young theatre performers, continuing to put Zuni’s pursuit of and research on experimental theatre into practice.