英文摘要
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”Throwing a Tea Basket” is a performance in which the actor/actress throws a basket to the audience. The one who catches it into certain items before the basket is retrieved. The actor/actress then improvises as inspired the objects in the basket. The performance can occur either in a humble bamboo shack, commercial theatre or a temple fair. Its style is derived from the Hakka drama 'Serving Tea,” as well as oral and street performance traditions. In order to meet the demand of commercial theatre in Taiwan, it then integrates songs and dances, ”Throwing a Tea Basket” and improvisation singing in its performance. In its sequence of opening statement, subject-singing, and prize-awarding, the ”Throwing a Tea Basket” demonstrates features that are akin to those of the hesheng oral traditions of the Tang dynasty and the ”subject-singing” of Song dynasty. The prize-awarding to the performers and the throwing-and-catching skill illustrate the folk custom of dacai and the acrobatic tradition of the Chinese theatre. The ”Throwing a Tea Basket” is a ceration-in-performance that is accomplished by both the actor/actress and audience. It brims with joviality, creation, acrobatic skills, fun and a sense of mutuality. With the tea basket being thrown back and forth, it enables people on and off the stage to communicate and enjoy the merriment together. The ”Throwing a Tea Basket” episode Goa-a Opera, chegu troupes and Hakka cuoba show is a historical phenomenon that had existed since the Japanese Colonial period down to the 1960s and 1970s.
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