November 20th 2021
Chieh-Wen Chen, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Thus Spoke Ann Arbor put on two productions titled Oppression and Saltimbank. Oppression revolves around the lives of a young man and woman trying to find their way as members of a new generation in a highly traditional world. Saltimbank's main characters are a couple who work in the circus, the circus dressing room serving as a lighthearted backdrop for their story of betrayal and conflict. Through these performances, TSAA works to tell stories of human emotion and the desire for freedom.

February 1st 2021
Chieh Wen Chen, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Thus Spoke Ann Arbor, a student organization focused on Chinese art and live performance, put on a hybrid performance that was accompanied by a Chinese broadcast and mini movie.

February 27th 2020
Yicong Sun, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

“Hello Insanity,” originally a Chinese comedy movie from 2016, tells a story of a girl who is unaware of her own multiple personality disorder, how she gradually realizes she is the one who is ill, and how she finally overcomes her disorder and accepts herself.

November 9th 2018
Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Thus Spoke Ann Arbor is a Chinese drama club for students interested in drama performance in Chinese. They produced their semesterly drama concert composed of several small playlets in different types, themes and time periods. This fall, they produced three short plays – Autumn Begins …, Hostage and Black Comedy. Each play was about 40-min long and provided students with great opportunities for performing on stage, provided audiences with a special perspective to understand the literature and their life, and also provided people who like Chinese drama performance with a platform for networking.

March 9th 2018
Wenxi Lu, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Thus Spoke Ann Arbor, a Chinese theater club at the University of Michigan, strives to promote Chinese language and Chinese culture through the lens of theater and create a home-like culture for our members. The club has 61 members and holds 2 major theater performing events each year. For their Spring 2018 show, they presented the Chinese drama “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land,” which combined two unrelated plays – a tragedy (Secret Love) and a comedy (The Peach Blossom Land) – on the same stage, mixing seriousness with banter. With their version of the play, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor hoped to address issues of time and space, transformation between generations, and translation between languages and cultures.

Drama Concert

November 19th 2017
Wenxi Lu, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Thus Spoke Ann Arbor presented three short but classic stage plays: Red Rose White Rose, The Dear Departed, and To Be Continued. The Dear Departed is a social play on the condition of the elderly people who are being abandoned and neglected by their own children. Red Rose White Rose Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao, who has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend. To Be Continued is about a 28-year-old girl name Molly who was informed by Death that she is going to die within one day and had to figure out what is the most important item to her in the world before the day ended or she will live the last day of her life over and over again. The plays were performed in Mandarin, and English subtitles were provided for people from all cultural backgrounds. With acting workshops and bonding events, ideas were exchanged from different perspectives and different cultural traditions.The performance gave the audience a chance to be exposed to both traditional and modern style stage plays.

April 14th 2017
Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

This winter, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor brought Chinese avant-garde drama to the stage. This experience for audiences aims to give people from the local community, especially UofM students, an opportunity to enjoy drama in the Chinese language. Moreover, it also renders members of the drama club an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the modern Chinese production process.

April 1st 2017
Thus Spoke Ann Arbor

Each Fall semester, Thus Spoke Ann Arbor presents theater studio that includes separate small plays to the audience. This Fall, they presented one original and two adapted plays on Sunday, November 13 to public, bringing the audience a better sense and closer experience with traditional drama play. The plays have original script and adapted script separately, and all the forms of presenting are to be original and based on their member’s understanding. Through this activity, they aimed to help students who already show their interests in drama establish further solid skills, like performing, directing etc.