Using Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for the film Interstellar as its “script,” Soft Lights for Sleepless Nights reanimates Zimmer’s musical score, taking the audience on a surreal, image-based journey. Created in response to the social, political, racial, economic and sexual inequity that prompted large scale protests around the world during the summer of 2019, the themes of the production are just as vital today as the world responds to the Covid-19 pandemic. The performance, like Zimmer’s soundtrack, ends with Dylan Thomas’ timeless clarion call to persevere in times of uncertainty and darkness, “Do not go gentle into that good night... rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Director & Stage Design | Craig Quintero
Lighting Design | Chi-Yang CHIANG, Shu-Ang YEH
Scenic Artist | Carl Johnson
Costumes | David HSU, Ra Skill, Su-Hao WANG, Tzu-Hui TSENG
Video | Yi-Hsuan CHEN
Performers | Yu-Hsin YU, Chia-Chih CHANG, Ning CHANG, Jia-Ling HSU, Su-Jui YU, Chih-Jung LIN
Premiere: December 14, 2019, Experimental Theater NTCH, Taipei
About Riverbed Theatre
Riverbed Theatre was founded in 1998 in Taipei, Taiwan. The company’s image-based, Total Theatre productions blur the boundaries between visual and performing arts. Riverbed has participated in festivals and events including: Avignon Off Theatre Festival , Imaginale Figurentheater Festival, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Inferno Benefit, M1 Fringe Festival, Alice Festival , BeSeTo Festival, Taiwan International Festival of Arts (Taipei), International Theatre Festival (Taipei), Wei Wu Ying Arts Festival (Kaohsiung), Taipei Arts Festival (Taipei), Tainan Arts Festival (Tainan), and On Site Arts Festival (Taipei).Riverbed has also participated in exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan Museum of Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Art, and Eslite Gallery.
Watch Riverbed Theatre |《Soft Lights for Sleepless Nights》