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
Autor*innenpreis at Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2025
- 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.
Listen to an introduction by Maria Schneider (in German) here.
Autor Yannic Han Biao Federer war am 21. April 2026 zu Gast bei SWR Kultur. Sein Gespräch mit Silke Arning können Sie hier nachhören.
»Yesterday I was still your darling.«
Cast
Team
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
Cast
Jenny Groß
Hyun Wanner
Flo Sohn
Henriette Blumenau
N. N.
Francesco Vanella
Siilas Arsianto
Ensemble