Asia Weeks
Teaching student Vanessa despairs of the German curriculum’s gaps on colonial history. She sees connections everywhere: between colonialism and the Nazis, between the federal intelligence service and Adenauer’s fear of a powerful Asian continent and the putsch against Indonesia’s first president, the subsequent pogroms and mass murder. Vanessa desperately wants to hear the stories behind the history.
»Asia Weeks« is the first production by director Wang Chong, whose works have been shown across the world, at Theater & Orchester Heidelberg.
Info
in German with supertitles in English
- Location
- Zwinger, Bühne 1
- Duration
- 1 hr. 45 mins. (incl. intermission)
- First night
- 24 April 2026
- Revival
- 7 November 2026
- Age recommendation
- 16+
On a linguistic level, the play deals with racially motivated physical violence; it tells of genocide and mass murder in the context of colonial violence and, at times, uses discriminatory language. On a performative level, exaggerated discriminatory symbols are used in some sequences. Smoke is used in one scene.
»Yesterday I was still your darling.«
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Cast
Team
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
