Creative Society's No Comment takes a scathing look at Taipei's young adults, who, director Fu Yu-hui says, talk incessantly but in essence say nothing. The play is staged in Mandarin, but its reliance on simple, every-day Taipei vernacular should be of particular interest for students of Chinese. Meaningful communication doesn't come easy in No Comment.
People always have a lot to say, and they say it fast.
Everyone has a cellphone. And they speak all the time. Vacuous speech is used in No Comment to bring out the play's central theme of anxiety. Although people may be speaking utter nonsense, their words are not without meaning. There is a sense of anxiety in that kind of speech, a sense of crisis about the future.