from lycoriscoris first album “from beyond the horizon”

music : lycoriscoris
visual : Yuri Serizawa

Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group

Founded in the summer of 1995, Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group owes its name to the fictional character 

in Virginia Woolf’s novel A Room of One’s Own, meaning to liberate women’s talents from the oppression of patriarchy. Limiting itself to no specific issues or convention alaesthetics, SWSG takes materials from all arts inspiring to create original theatrical works. Having been to Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing, Shanghai, Busan, Tokyo, Berlin, Singapore, Kobe, Paris, and New York, SWSG has been invited by various cities and countries to perform, and takes an important role in international city culture and artistic exchange for many years.

The SWGS has now issued over forty theatrical works to date. Zodiac, written and directed by WANG Chia-ming, was selected Top 10 in the 1st Taishin Performing Arts Awards. The 2007 production Tsen，。received a Top 10 Performing Arts nomination and Special Jury Award in the 6th Taishin Arts Awards. In 2008, Baboo’s directed work Hsu Yen-ling × Sylvia Plath and WANG Chia-ming’s directed work Listen to Me, Please~ Deluxe extended version were both nominated Top 10 in the 7th Taishin Performing Arts Awards, the former presented again in Avignon Off Festival, France in 2009, and earned high praises from former Chair of the Festival Bernard Faivre d’Arcier. Director WANG Chia-ming’s Once, upon Hearing the Skin Tone received first prize in the 8th Taishin Performing Arts Award.