About the time preceding her first documents, Miriam Yung Min Stein had only the mythical information obtained from the adoption services office: “In 1977 you were found wrapped in newspaper inside a box in South Korea.” How does one tell the story of one’s origins when, as in Stein’s case, the recording can only begin with arriving at a German airport? “Black Tie” orbits the black hole of ancestry as well as the odd and much discussed human genetics issues of today’s support industry.

RIMINI PROTOKOLL’s new work – after three pieces using larger texts as their subject – Schiller’s “Wallenstein,” the first volume of Marx’s “Capital” and the “Breaking News” of the evening news –this piece directs its microscopic gaze to the documents of a life.  

With: Miriam Yung Min Stein, Hye-Jin Choi and Ludwig, book and staging: Helgard Haug & Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), research and dramaturgy: Sebastian Brünger, stage: Helgard Haug & Daniel Wetzel, music: Peter Dick (Ludwig / The Noes have it), light: Marc Jungreithmeier, interaction design: Grit Schuster, production management: Heidrun Schlegel, engl. translation: Jenna Krumminga, assistant director: Dorit Abiry, assistant set design: Sina Gentsch, interaction design assistant: Tobias Üffinger, trainee in production: Dimitris Bampilis

A production of Rimini Apparat in co-production with Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, in co-operation with Wiener Festwochen.
Sponsored by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.

For performance rights please contact schaefersphilippen, Theater und Medien, Köln(www.schaefersphilippen.de)

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