OUR THEATRE
A Contemporary Theatre Organization
Developing a Cultural Content System Using Theatre as Method
ABOUT US
Our Theatre (阮劇團) is a cultural organization founded in 2003 in Chiayi, Taiwan. Operating as a cultural hub for experimentation and long-term practice, Our Theatre uses theatre as a method to engage with local narratives, social questions, and cultural transformation. Rather than centering solely on individual productions, Our Theatre develops ongoing cultural practices that emphasize continuity and sustainability. Its methods extend across performance, festivals, education, and related cultural initiatives, translating place-based traditions and lived experience into contemporary artistic forms, with an emphasis on cultural sustainability.
What We Are / What We Are Not
While rooted in Chiayi, Our Theatre is not defined by geography, language, or a single artistic format.
Local experience and mother tongue culture are treated as translatable materials, transformed into reproducible and referable cultural methods and systems.
Our Theatre does not operate as a project-based theatre company, an event organizer, or a cultural education provider in isolation.
Its focus is on developing methods that allow cultural content to be generated, adapted, and sustained across different social contexts.
How the Method Operates
Performance
Our Theatre applies theatrical methods to translate critical social issues into collective experiences that can be perceived, discussed, and reflected upon.
Festival
Our Theatre applies these methods through festivals, creating experimental temporal and spatial settings where shared encounters generate collective experience and social connection.
Education
Our Theatre applies these methods through education, transforming experience and knowledge into environments where cultural capacity can be learned, practiced, and extended over time.
Place & Mother Tongue Culture
Our Theatre applies these methods through place-based practice and mother tongue cultural contexts, converting lived experience into narrative materials for contemporary cultural production.
Basic Facts
Our Theatre（阮劇團）
Founded in 2003
Base: Chiayi, Taiwan
Field
Theatre
Theatre as Method
Cultural Laboratory
Social Innovation
Cultural Curation & Large-scale Cultural Orchestration
Performance
Festivals
Education
Products
Place-based Practice
Taiwanese Language-based Cultural Practice
Mother Tongue & Language-based Cultural Practice
Cultural Sustainability
For organizational background and methodological context, please refer to
Context & Background.
