On Creativity, Labor, and Uncertainty

Yu-Chia Wei's A Fable for Now. Courtesy of Creative Society. Photo by Etang Chen.

Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A Fable for Now and Mama/Popstar, won the Taiwan Literature Award and Taipei Literature Awards, respectively. The former even received an English staged reading at PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2018. This month, she is featured in the Playwright in Focus Festival, a staged reading event dedicated to showcasing the work of a mid-career Taiwanese playwright, organized by the Prologue Center for New Plays. Ahead of the festival, Prologue sat down with this talented writer to discuss her creative approach and life as a professional playwright in Taiwan.

(Read the full interview here on The Theatre Times.)