As my French teacher, Elodie Hsu, proposed to me to work as an interpreter for 2010 International Kaohsiung County Puppet Theater Festival, I had no idea what this festival was about. However, the slogan of the festival: “ALL COMING” deeply interested me, so I decided to accept this offer. This festival is held annually in order to promote the heritages and the development of the three main types of puppet arts in Taiwan: shadow puppetry, hand or glove puppetry (布袋戲), and marionette puppetry. This year, there were at least 21 puppet theater groups from 9 different countries, such as Australia, Korea, Italy, French, Brazil, Bulgaria, etc.
This activity was held in Wei Wu Ying Art Center from 14-21 February 2010. During this period of time, my main responsibility was to accompany a French group of marionette puppetry named Teatro Golondrino and to give them any assistance needed. This puppet troupe was composed by two performers; a 32 years-old French young man, Christophe Croes (middle), founder and leader of Teatro Golondrino and his assistant, Jessie (right), who was responsible for lighting. I love working beside them so much because they were really friendly, funny and energetic.
Since the performance was mainly dedicated to children, many children and their parents came to the stage after the performance and asked Christophe to take picture with them. In spite of fatigue, he always gave his best smile to the audience and never refused their request to take photos with Milo, one of his marionettes.
During this festival, in total, there were 6 performances from Teatro Golondrino; 4 indoor and 2 outdoor. Overall, all of performances were going smoothly and successfully without any serious problem. Moreover, Christophe and Jessie seemed enjoying their stay in Taiwan and were satisfied with my service throughout the festival. For me, I really appreciate this chance because this annual festival allowed me to put into practice my language ability, French and Chinese and provided me such a precious experience in translating and interpreting domain as well.
Note : This interpreting job was very well paid. I got about NTD 3,000/day or about IDR 900,000/day. Not bad for a beginner interpreter like me.
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