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Does the world get smaller or bigger after travel? Does travel lead to the yearning to explore more of the unknown? Or does it lead to a life of contented contemplation in your armchair?

Crosstalk Travellers sets out on an entertaining expedition to find out!

Lui Ren is a 6-star luxury traveller in pursuit of enjoyable experiences; Cheng Ke is a couchsurfing backpacker in search of meaning and significance. Embark on a hysterical journey with these two travellers who are stranded on an island as they recount their daring experiences from past adventures with each other and discover that they are not so different after all.

Coming on the heels of the highly acclaimed 2008 production The Village, Taiwan’s leading theatre company Performance Workshop brings us the latest instalment of a wildly popular series of crosstalk plays. Crosstalk Travellers is the latest major collaboration between Performance Workshop’s artistic director Stan Lai, regarded as the best Chinese language playwright in the world, and top Taiwanese television producer Wang Weizhong. Featuring familiar faces in Stan Lai’s plays—veteran crosstalk performer Feng Yigang and noted film and television actor Qu Zhongheng.

About Performance Workshop’s Crosstalk Plays Series
In 1985, Performance Workshop introduced a new genre of theatre known as crosstalk play with That Night, We Performed Crosstalk. Written and directed by Stan Lai, the play was an immediate hit that produced a soundtrack that sold a million copies. Besides reviving the almost forgotten art of crosstalk, the play also rejuvenated the Taiwanese theatre scene and ignited a new wave of creativity in Taiwanese Theatre.

To date, Performance Workshop has presented six crosstalk plays all over the Chinese-speaking world, achieving critical and commercial success and capturing the hearts of Chinese language audiences everywhere.


Performance Workshop Theatre Taiwan: http://www.pwshop.com/eng/index.php