Chapter 1 | The Stage That Moves, the Audience That Becomes the View
We’re now bonded to Ciao - Ciao Gloomy
Backstreet People Theatre
The performance takes place on a moving train. The audience travels with the work, shifting between carriage interiors and passing landscapes outside the window. Time is structured by sound: whispers, transitions, and station stops mark subtle emotional shifts.
As the train continues forward, narrative becomes secondary to perception. The landscape changes constantly, and memory accumulates gradually within the body. What belongs to others begins to mix with one’s own experience, forming a drifting field of overlapping impressions.
Nothing is held still. Meaning appears in fragments, shaped by movement and disappearance. The experience continues even after it ends, carried as residue rather than story.
Backstreet People Theatre
Founded in Taichung in 2018, Backstreet People Theatre works with lyrical and poetic forms within stripped-down theatrical structures. Their practice often begins from states of absence, loneliness, and emotional residue in contemporary life. Drawing from psychology as a conceptual base, the company explores how groundedness and joy might be sustained within unstable everyday conditions.
Their work often unfolds in non-traditional spaces, where intimacy is shaped through proximity, constraint, and shared presence. Rather than constructing fixed narratives, the company builds situations in which perception, memory, and emotion overlap in real time.
