Reporter Huang Zhendi/Taipei report
The stage play "Time Box: My Abba and Cassan" is produced by the Shadow Culture and Art Foundation, a foundation founded by director Li Gang and served as the CEO, adapted from the novel of Taiwanese and Japanese mixed-race writer "Yi Qingmiao", which will be performed at Taichung Zhongshan Hall for two days on the 5th and 6th of this weekend, and it is also Fang Wenlin's first public appearance after she was announced to have "zero stage of esophageal cancer" a few days ago.
"Time Box: My Abba and Cassan" is about to be performed in Taichung. (Photo/Courtesy of the Shadow Culture and Art Foundation)
Fang Wenlin revealed that when she was found to have cancer, she had already taken over the performance of "Time and Handbox: My Abba and Cassan", because there were still more than 2 months before the official start of the Taipei show, she decided to open endoscopic minimally invasive surgery to recover, and also informed Li Gang and other foundation colleagues in advance that she was afraid that she would not be able to recover as scheduled after the operation and delay the stage performance.
Fang Wenlin was announced to have cancer a few days ago. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook/Fang Wenlin)
Not only that, Fang Wenlin recalled that it was difficult to swallow during the postoperative recovery, and she was afraid that she would not be able to perform well because she was in too bad condition, which made her want to quit the stage play for a while. Fortunately, the medical staff took care of her, and she relied on her own hard work day and night to recuperate, and finally recovered before the Taipei premiere early last month.
"Time Box: My Abba and Cassang" is about to go to Taichung for the second time and appear on the Kaohsiung stage for the first time, and she also welcomed the audience and said, "Please come to Taichung and Kaohsiung to watch my performance that I can now be healthy and alive on the stage!"
"Time Box: My Abba and Cassan" is about to be performed in Taichung. (Photo/Courtesy of the Shadow Culture and Art Foundation)
Fang Wenlin made her debut from a female singer to the theater industry, and in recent years, she has begun to try stage plays, she frankly fell in love with stage plays because she likes to have close contact with the audience, and frankly said, "Before I performed stage plays, I was also one of the audience, and I thought, 'Wow is great! It would be a great honor if I had the opportunity to stand on stage one day." So I challenged the stage play, and after the performance, I fell in love with the performance of the stage play, the kind of smile and laughter, crying and sad breathing are all with the audience, and the final curtain call, enjoying the applause of the audience to the actors on the stage is very charming."
"Time Box: My Abba and Cassan" is about to be performed in Taichung. (Photo/Courtesy of the Shadow Culture and Art Foundation)
As a native of central China, Fang Wenlin is naturally familiar with Taichung, and she is quite excited to set foot in the national theater in Taichung for the second time in "Time Box: My Abba and Cassan", and exclaimed, "There are a lot of delicious foods in Taichung, and during the performance in 2022, I did my best to take the crew to relax, massage and relieve pressure, and I also took them to a seafood or special cuisine restaurant opened by a friend I know to enjoy the food.
"Time の Hand Box: My Abba and Kasan" tells the story of Yan Huimin (played by Seihiko Yoshiyama), the eldest man of the Keelung mining family, who experienced turbulent times and married back to the ordinary clerk in Ginza, Ichiqing Kazue (played by Okubo Mariko), and the woman found out after marriage that she had married into the Yan family, one of the five major families in Taiwan. A seemingly romantic exotic romance, each with the complex psychology of wanting to be recognized by the country and the family, each finds their own place in that era in different ways.
Starring Seihiko Kageyama, Mariko Okubo, Ichiqing Miao, Yi Zheng, Fang Wenlin, Chen Jiakui, Yu Dan and Mi Qiyu. Sponsored by Fubon Financial Holdings and other enterprises, "Time Box: My Abba and Cassan" will be performed at Taichung Zhongshan Hall on October 5 and 6, and at the Kaohsiung Weiwuying Opera House on December 7 and 8.