Breaking Breakers In A Limbo Space
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People celebrated the beauty of broken tulips which had unique flames on the petals in the 17th-century Netherlands. They didn’t know the exquisiteness was caused by the Tulip Breaking Virus.

Contemporary tulip farmers can spot a single broken tulip growing in their fields, and remove it to secure the the unity of tulips. The members of the Wakefield Tulip Society still allow the breaking virus in their tulips. Alexandre Dumas who wrote the novel “The Black Tulip” was half-European and half-Black, as his grandmother was a black slave in Haiti. And I, I have become a black tulip, wearing a black plastic bags on my head.

The idea of beauty, breakers, ruptures, after-images and ghosts in relation to these tulips throughout different times, cultures and histories fascinate and inspire me greatly to create my own theatre – a strange mixture in a limbo space – where all kinds of tulips can sing and shout, interrupt and intersect, integrate and deconstruct, unify and rupture, speak and dance, dream and daydream to break other breakers by becoming a new breaker.