White Storyteller
Taiwanese puppetry meets White Terror history
Taiwanese history, traditional glove puppetry, and family memory come together in White Storyteller, a production that blends solo performance, traditional glove puppetry, paper funeral offerings, light, and shadow.
The story begins with a son waiting for his late father’s spirit to return on the seventh night after his death, a traditional Taiwanese belief linked to final farewells. But instead of a simple goodbye, childhood memories, family secrets, and Taiwan’s White Terror-era history begin to surface through puppets, legends, and fragments of the past, according to the Taipei Performing Arts Center website.
The result is part family drama, part historical reckoning, and part visual theater, using folk heroes and puppet characters to explore how people lived with fear, silence, and political suppression.
The show is performed in Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, with Mandarin and English subtitles. It runs for 85 minutes without an intermission.
