The puppet master: Where is my stage?
Are you manipulating the show or being manipulated by the show? It’s a story about self-identification and searching for the stage of life.
故事背景設在倫敦維多利亞時期,紙劇場是當時流行的娛樂,富人家會請操控布偶師來表演,在不同階級的場合表演的劇也會不同。 這個故事是一個布偶師從富人家表演到被逐出,不斷改變自己的表演為了博得觀眾的掌聲,但最終他發現他並不快樂,直到有一天他的布偶們要求他釋放他們,他才理解原來被操控的其實是觀眾前的自己。
The story is talking about a puppet master in Victorian London, who usually played the show with the toy theater for the wealthy family. He was being melancholic with shifting his stage among the different hierarchy of audiences.
One day, his puppets asked him to release them, then he realized that he is the one also being manipulated by the audience.