Riot in A Room of One’s Own

CHINESE / 中文

2010 Taipei Arts Festival

Director: Wang Jia-Ming; │ Stage design: Huang Yi-Ju │ Contemporary artist: Su Hui-Yu

You don’t need an idol anymore, because the greatest of all has fallen…
Together, a farewell with 3 billion fans, of the most untimely political incorrectness in the history of pop music.
The very first stage performance based on pop culture and idol, a theatre built in the scale of a live concert.
We scream and shout along with Michael Jackson’s songs and dance, together we reminisce…

Once, we revered and worshipped recklessly; once, we depleted our passionate youth lavishly; once, the most righteous generation of the 80s.

On June 26th 2009, the passing of the all-time greatest pop star, Michael Jackson, has transformed his ludicrous and exploited fame into an atomic explosion of news and an eternal legend. Almost simultaneously, the three creators of Michael Jackson, Wang Jia-Ming, Su Hui-Yu and Huang Yi-Ju, decided to reenact a revised version of the show that caused a sold-out and immensely popular show in 2005.

Michael Jackson employs three of the most significant songs, “Thriller (1984)”, “Bad (1988)”, and “Dangerous (1991),” as three main concepts and sections to represent the memories of Michael Jackson and its symbolic meaning. The show will interpret this cultural material from a Taiwanese’s perspective to revisit the popular culture in the 80s, like instant news and temporal elements, in the hope of sharing this fragmented but wonderful memory.