sisila ila ila: saying goodbye is a musical poem evoking a sense of longing for worlds that have been lost— or those in the process of being lost. We follow the thoughtful meanderings of an inquisitive viola as the sound of an ice cream truck sparks her childhood memories, which come flooding back. The forgotten voice of an indigenous singer, a 1960’s Taiwanese pop song, moments from a Beethoven quartet rehearsal, music of the humpback whales... Her reminiscences come to life with imagery developed by seventh-generation shadow puppet masters from the Tung-Hua Puppet theater.

This new work represents a fresh kind of theater that transports us, visually and musically —  as if in a dream—to other worlds, calling upon us all to listen to one another, embrace shared experiences of life, and dissolve misperceptions of separateness.

《sisila ila ila: 別離之歌》是喚起人們對已經失去或可能正在失去事物的省思，用音樂表達詩意的作品。作品中，一位中提琴手拉著深思熟慮的曲調在街頭徘徊，而遠處冰淇淋車的音樂激發了她如潮水般湧來的回憶：一首1960年代的台灣流行歌曲、一曲被遺忘的賽夏族的音樂、一聲聲座頭鯨美妙的歌聲、及排練貝多芬四重奏的片段音樂……伴隨著台灣第七代東華皮影戲團的影象呈現及現場音樂家的演奏，她的回憶逐漸清晰、擬真。

這部具有嶄新戲劇形式的作品，藉由視覺和音樂，將我們傳送到另一個世界；在那裡，所有人相互傾聽，擁抱共同的生活經驗，解除了對彼此的心靈圍籬。