Pao-Chang Tsai 蔡 柏璋
Theatre performer, playwright & director ｜劇場編導演、說故事的旅人
Theatre Production Reels
Pao-Chang Tsai (蔡柏璋), a theatre actor, director, playwright and singer, has been actively involved with theatre scene domestically and internationally since 2005. Here are some collections of his works:
【Aller Simple】 2018
Directed & Choreographed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Text by Pao-Chang Tsai & company
Music by Blaire Ko
<Aller Simple> is Pao-Chang's first choreography piece. Invited by Cloud Gate 2 artistic director, Cheng Tsung Lung, Paochang led the dancers to explore their inner fear about departure and saying goodbye. "Aller Simple" means one way ticket in French, extended in the meaning of farewell gesture to the past.
【The Book of Fate】 Theme Song (2018)
天書第一部：被遺忘的神
Directed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Lyrics & performed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Music by Annie Lo
<The Book of Fate> premiered at National Theatre Taipei. It's about an abandoned angel incarnated into a refugee, Chun-Huei Pu, who gets on her journey to fight for inequality and human right in a theocratic country, where the religion is manipulated by a fictional God.
【Solo Date】 2017
Directed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Text by Pao-Chang Tsai
Music by Blaire Ko
Solo Date is Tsai Pao-Chang's first solo performance, utilizing new media which centers on Ho-Nien and his quest to be reunited with the love of his life.
【The Book of Fate】 2018
天書第一部：被遺忘的神
Directed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Text by Pao-Chang Tsai & the whole company
Music by Annie Lo
<The Book of Fate> premiered at National Theatre Taipei. It's about an abandoned angel incarnated into a refugee, Chun-Huei Pu, who gets on her journey to fight for equality and human right in a theocratic country, where the religion is manipulated by a fictional God.
【GHOSTs】 2017
Directed by Pascal Rambert
Text by Pascal Rambert
Music by Blaire Ko
GHOSTs is a four-act-play that tells the story of six young siblings engaged in family rituals like cooking, dining, boozing and tea drinking, which Pascal Rambert transforms into a summoning of death and memory. Bit by bit, the siblings piece their family back together.
【Solo Date】 2016
Directed by Pao-Chang Tsai
Text by Pao-Chang Tsai
Music by Blaire Ko
Solo Date is Tsai Pao-Chang's first solo performance, utilizing new media which centers on Ho-Nien and his quest to be reunited with the love of his life.
【Q&A Trilogy: Episode 2】2015
Written and starred by Pao-Chang Tsai
Pao-Chang Tsai served as Liu-Yi, a sex-addicted homosexual who got amnesia after a car accident and am convinced to be straight man by his parents.
【Bent】 2014
Directed by Han Chung
Written by Martin Sherman
Music by Annie Lo
Pao-Chang Tsai served as Max, the gay protagonist who tried to survive through Nazi's concentration camp in Martin Sherman's compelling play.
【Re/turn】2013
Directed and written by Pao-Chang Tsai
Pao-Chang Tsai also served as Wasir, a gay best friend of the lead character, Wei. This reel shows a poetic transition between Wei's wedding to funeral after a sudden news of the death of her mother.
【CHAOS: Season One】2011
Directed and written by Pao-Chang Tsai
Agent Mario and his transvestite guru, Sandy, disguised themselves into a Japanese restaurant to investigate a terrorist case.
【Mulan: The Musical】2011
Directed by Po-Shen Lu & Pao-Chang Tsa
Book by Pao-Chang Tsai
Music by Owen Wang
The song named ""Could you please pick up my soap" takes place on the first night when Mulan discreetly ran into the captian while sneaking into the shower room.
【Macbeth】2007
Directed by Po-Shen Lu
Pao-Chang Tsai served as title role in William Shakespeare's famous Scottish play.
【Hamlet】2005
Directed by Po-Shen Lu
Pao-Chang Tsai played the Prince from Denmark in modern Chinese language.