In cooperation with Shin-Hua Urban Township Office of Tainan, Yang-Kuei Literature Memorial Museum, and TADEA (Taiwan Association of Drama Education and Application), this is a musuem-theatre project led by Professor Yun-Wen Chen and comprised of drama-based education activity, acting with script, and drama by young people in museum. 

     As a whole, this project attempted to liberate the history from the static exhibition and further activate it through drama, hoping that drama, with its fictitiousness and multi-modal sign systems, may create a space in which the participants could actively construct their knowledge and interpretation of the writer’s life story and literature from their stance. This echoed the contemporary emphasis of museum on arts education and learning practice. The team members comprised the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of our department, who were divided into two subgroups by their interest and capability, the division of performing and the division of teaching. Besides, the posters and flyers were also created by our student.
 
     Responsible for the demonstration of museum drama on the fifth day and subsequent rehearsal assistance, the division of performing was further divided into three subdivisions: playwriting, acting, and props and costume. With Professor Chen's survey of the museum and the related literature in advance, the two playwrights were asked to create three pieces of plays based on the literature and corresponding to the museum exhibition. These scripts, under Professor Chen's revision and integration, were sent to the actors and the designer with a note that the space layout of the museum should be carefully considered while the style could be eclectic in acting and designing, either realistic or symbolic.
 
     The division of teaching joined Professor Chen to plan, prepare for, and implement the four-day drama workshops (6 hours each day). The lessons progressed from drama teaching and application, through Yang Kuei and his life story, Yang Kuei’s literature, to playwriting and performing, altogether developingthe participants’ capability in working together with drama, dramatic expression, learning in drama, drama creation, and performance. Specifically, the first workshop introduced the drama conventions in the communal exploration of local landscapes and folk stories; some of the drama tasks in the second and the third workshops corresponded to the scripts so that the participants might compare and contrast their interpretations with the demonstration on the fifth day; the fourth workshop took one of Yang Kuei’s fictions for example to adapt and perform.
 

     The participants in the workshops included the museum volunteers who are also devoted in community empowerment, along with the teachers, students and alumni from a local high school. The workshops were highly appraised among this mixed-age group. Further, their own presentation on the musuem's anniverary also gained wide applause from the audience. This porject is continueously carried on by the adult-participants--the museum volunteers provide dramatic interpretation service now while the teachers take on the drama lessons to develop the featured courses for their school.

     It is hoped that the writer’s legacy as well as the seeds of drama may take root and grow in their hearts and in the local community, fulfilling Yang Kuei’s ideal that the old and young hands in hands, shoulder by shoulder, walk together onto a new land of happiness.