About performance
In the uncertain situation of the Covid era where shows can close any time, the creative team decides to make a documentary film about the past process of research, rehearsals and stage realization.
The performance on the stage is the filming process itself of this documentary film. Interviews, scene presentations and role plays on stage are filmed live and projected onto the screen in the theatre, attempting a transmission between mediums. One footage of the documentary film is created each time the performance ends.

Five actors need to represent on stage the stories of the people whom the playwright Jürgen met during the interviews, or of their own. The characters are: a person who crossed the Mediterranean from Somalia; a North Korean defector who now lives in Seoul; a person who witnessed Germany’s reunification at age 6 and moved from East Germany to West Germany with parents; the father of Jürgen who lived with the trauma of deportation in Czech Republic; and actor Seong-ik Jang who immigrated from Jeju Island to the mainland.
At the beginning of 2020, they were sharing their stories at a workshop in Munich, trying to bring it on stage, when they first saw the news about Covid-19. Confronting a new border between nations that didn’t used to exist, where would their project be headed now?

Playwright: Jürgen Berger
Playwright who raises contemporary issues that transcend border and genre
A renowned theatre critic and playwright of Germany, Jürgen Berger transcends national borders and genres, working with Argentine, Brazilian, Thai and Filipino artists to deal with social issues such as sexual minorities and immigrants. Recently, his opera ’Alzeim’, which deals with Alzheimer’s disease, and play ’Ifwuala’ about German immigrants in Argentina were critically acclaimed in Germany. He has also served on the jury of renowned performing arts and culture related programs including Berliner Theatertreffen and Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis.

About company
Founded in 2008, Creative VaQi discovers the themes from our contemporary society. Members from different backgrounds go through research, exploration, firsthand experience and workshop together and translate the resulting documentations, changes of perspective and revelations into the language of performing arts.
Rather than language-oriented theatre, they seek to create the richest kind of performing art pieces by utilizing ingredients of various art disciplines including objects, body, media and installation art. Using alternative spaces besides theatres such as crosswalks, squares and abandoned buildings, they have attempted at encounters of people and environments that are possible because theatre is theatre. Also, they try not to merely celebrate new forms but to collectively pursue a spirit and philosophy that can make the world a better place.

About coproduction
Located in Munich, Residenztheatre is one of the leading venues in Germany. It first opened in the 18th century as Bavarian State Theatre and now more than 45 actors belong to it.
It communicates with the audience in different theatrical languages ranging from the classical to contemporary. It has 3 venues: Residenztheater has 887 seats, a Baroque-style Cuvilliés-Theater 523 seats and Marstall, with flexible units, has 200.
In 2019, Andreas Beck, artistic director of Theater Basel who is gaining a lot of attention and recognition in the European theatre scene, became the new artistic director of Residenztheatre, enabling it to present more experimental and innovative contemporary theatre.

Credits
Cast‧Co-Creation: BumJin Woo, Florian Jahr, KyungMin Na, SoHyun Bae, SungIc Jang
Director/ Kyungsung Lee
Research·Text/ Jürgen Berger
Technical Director/ Yochan Kim
Stage Manager/ EunKyu Lee
Set Design/ Seungryul Shin
Light Design/ KyuYeon Hwang
Sound Design/ Haesoo Eshu Jung
Videographer/ Hez Kim
Assistant Director·Archivist/ YeiSol Hyun
Translation/ Danbi Yi
Producer/ HeeJin Lee

*Photo Credit: Kyung-min Na