- Chinese Name: 果陀劇場
- Year of Establishment: 1988
- Founder: Liang Chi-ming (梁志民)
- Did You Know That…?
- When Taiwan's prominent Cloud Gate Dance Theatre disbanded in 1988, the bad news did not shatter Liang Chi-ming's faith in Taiwan's theater scene. Liang picked the name "Godot,” which stands for hope in Hindi, and established the Godot Theatre Company in the same year.
- Site: www.godot.org.tw
About the Troupe
As the first theater in Taiwan that created and commissioned Chinese-language musicals, the Godot Theatre Company has presented more than 60 plays and musicals since its establishment, surmounting numerous difficulties to makie theater prosperous in Taiwan ... (read more)
Milestones
- Productions with the most variations - "Our Town (淡水小鎮)” based on the Thornton Wilder play - 7 editions
- Production with the second most variations - "Kiss Me Nana (吻我吧娜娜)” based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew” - 3 editions
- Production with the highest audience count - "Our Town” - over 132,582 views
Select Productions
"Tuesdays with Morrie (最後14堂星期二的課)”
- Based on the same-titled memoir by American author Mitch Albom, the 2011 play witnesses the transformation of Albom from a cold, worldly, and materialistic sports columnist to someone with heart. The wisdom and wit imparted by his dying professor Morrie Schwartz is relayed through 14 lessons.
"Our Town (淡水小鎮)”
- Adapted from the Thornton Wilder classic to reflect Taiwanese sensibilities, Godot places "Our Town” in the coastal settlement of Danshui in Taiwan during the 1950s, where a young couple share a childhood, fall in and out of love, and experience the universal themes of life, death, and everything in between.
"Kiss Me Nana (吻我吧娜娜)”
- A demonstration of how the questions raised by Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew” remain pertinent today, especially among the young and educated in Taiwan's current society.