Overview
'The Medicine' is a theatrical adaptation of the eponymous short story from Lu Xun's collection 'A Call to Arms'. The play interweaves the original narrative with a newly written modern story.
Performance Style
- The original story is told in the third person, while the new modern narrative incorporates a stream-of-consciousness technique for contrast.
- This structure allows the audience to navigate a fluctuating distance from the events, exploring a theatrical experience distinct from traditional drama.
Themes
- The new story depicts a century-old shop powerless against the turning wheels of time.
- It prompts reflection: how many of the familiar shops from our childhood have silently vanished from our lives?
- Lu Xun's extensive use of symbolism in 'The Medicine' lends itself perfectly to transformation into theatrical language through metaphor-rich puppetry.
- Accompanied by live music, the performance guides the audience through past and present, inviting them to personally taste the bitterness and absurdity of both the old and new 'Medicine'.
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