13-15 December 2024
(Still a (Pangcah) woman solo show.)
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Sawmah, an ordinary Pangcah woman who yearns for a simple life in the city, impulsively steals her deceased grandfather's hunting knife from his funeral and brings it back to Taipei.
However, upon returning to Taipei, Sawmah realizes that the knife is taboo in her tribe and forbidden for women to touch.
When the forbidden hunting knife rolls out of Sawmah's suitcase and gets stuck in her room doorway—

 * Can Sawmah still go to her crucial job interview tomorrow?
* Will the ancestral spirits really protect her?
* Will misfortune befall her because she has accidentally touched her grandfather's knife?
* If she's touched it once, will touching it again bring more bad luck?
* But the knife is now lying on the floor of her small attic apartment in Datong District, Taipei. If she doesn't touch it, will it have to stay there forever?
She can escape the tribe, but she cannot escape the taboo.
How will Sawmah ever get out?

As Sawmah's hand touches the knife she has seen since childhood, the knife that has tasted blood, nourished her and her family, the knife both familiar and distant, she suddenly understands — the taboo of the hunting knife will haunt her for a very long time. And her already complex relationship with her tribe is destined to become even more entangled.

Partnered with @prologuecenter 
Photos by @aaron_lhk