JUMEL

Text: F. Dupuy/Art direction: Franck Dimech
With Uenping Juan and Jung Shih Chou

« Jumel » had been presented at Gulling Theatre on the third week of June 2010 in a new version: all tickets were already sold out and the audience seemed to be satisfied and pleased by the performance of the two actresses.

Because the stage design was reduced to a table and two chairs, one could appreciate the focus on the very precise gesture of the actresses in their acting, without any troubling or disturbing elements as one could have seen in the show as it was presented in France. Played in Taiwanese and in French, the theatre play seemed to get a more dramatic intensity, driving the actresses to a more fluent acting way. One could follow with a mystified compassion and an attentive empathy the story of these two weird twins.

The text –even the author did not write it on this purpose- has been put on stage as an allegory of the History between Taiwan and Mainland China. A very creepy and peculiar link connects the two countries: this kind of relationship where hatred and love are part of the same feeling. One could read the sharpness of their linkage, their likeness and differences, their fight for wealth against poverty… The history shows a very Hegelian master-slave attachment between the big brother and the little island.

And the new art direction is, for these reasons, more interesting even a little bit more polite than the French one. But, we recommend it to the audience as it has all qualities required to be a very good show with two beautiful actresses. DVDM