Recover the imagination to jump out of the frame and the courage not to be afraid of making mistakes: the musical “The Sofa Has a Black Hole!” “

A family falls into another universe, experiences another side of themselves, re-understands themselves and reflects on the relationship between family members, and finally returns to their own universe for reconciliation. No, I’m not talking about the Damn Multiverse, but AM Creative ‘s 2022 Young Son musical The Couch Has a Black Hole! “.

Surprised, and very surprised, musicals with parents and children as the main objects can achieve this level of metaphor, but at the same time maintain a vivid and concrete realization. Not only children experience wonderful stories, adults also have many places to project and connect.

If you’ve ever watched parent-child musicals, you know that balancing adults and kids can be difficult. If it is too child-oriented, adults will not resonate with it. It is too adult-oriented, and children may not understand it. This play is a little more accurate than the previous plays of AM Creative. more mature.

The stage technique is also amazing. The props on the stage this time are probably the fewest in the musicals of AM Creative: there is only one sofa for almost the whole process. The rest of the visuals are integrated and presented by the two projection screens at the front and rear of the stage.

The front screen is transparent. The actors are mainly between the two screens, but also appear in front of the front screen. Between the pictures on the two screens and the performances of the actors, the virtual and the real are well integrated. Fully bring out the sense of space, without the flatness and monotony of a single screen projection.

The music director is still Huang Yunling. The music is still too good to say the least. It’s just that some lyrics are a little difficult to use (more like written language than spoken language), and they are sung, sometimes you have to read the subtitles to know what you are singing. But don’t worry parents. Even if children don’t understand some passages, it will not affect their experience.

“The Sofa Has a Black Hole! “Compared with the previous series of AM Creative, there is another difference: this time the focus is mainly on father and son. The role of mother is still there, but relatively less important.

I think this is good. In Chinese society, including Taiwan, the father-son relationship has always been more troublesome than the mother-son or mother-daughter relationship, and knots are killed earlier and more difficult to untie. In fact, the first feature film “For a Drive” directed by Jan Kedi is also talking about this matter.

The interpretation of different relationships in drama will arouse different projections from the audience. What touched me in this musical is actually a very small point (it seems that it can’t be said to be very small, it is almost the whole story): the father tells some random stories to the children.

No matter how bad your father-son relationship is as an adult, you can probably trace it back to a not-so-bad starting point: a father who reads a bedtime story to a naive child, and the child actually falls asleep after hearing it. Of course most of the fathers tell bad stories. But the point is never the content of the story, but the very thing of storytelling, and the relationship. The moment the father stops telling stories is often the moment when the father-son relationship begins to go downhill.

I thought of the movie “Big Wisdom Like a Fish” again. Will has a father, Edward, who loves to tell stories and tells super fantasy. But Will never believed these stories, and later lost contact with his father for a long time. Until his father died, he went back to see the last time, and also returned to these stories, discovered the truth behind the stories, and rediscovered his father.

what! The more I speak, the more serious I become, and I am about to become a serious teacher in the play. Back to the key points.

“The Sofa Has a Black Hole! is a musical worth watching for the whole family. The story is simple but deep and will resonate with any age. It not only brings you good entertainment, but also makes you reflect on your relationship with your family. The world is full of challenges. Only when family members accept and support each other can they face challenges and grow together.

May every family find in this musical the imagination to think outside the box and the courage to make mistakes.

Performances ( TixFun Ticketing Network )

• 2022-12-10 (Sat) 15:00 Drama Theater of Weiwuying National Art and Culture Center
• 2022-12-11 (Sun) 15:00 Drama Theater of Weiwuying National Art and Culture Center
• 2023-01-06 (Fri) 19:30 Taipei Performing Arts Center Grand Theater
• 2023-01-07 (Sat) 19:30 Taipei Performing Arts Center Grand Theater
• 2023-01-08 (Sun) 11:00 Taipei Performing Arts Center Grand Theater
• 2023-01-08 (Sun) 16:00 Taipei Performing Arts Center Grand Theater

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