This Is Not an Embassy (Made in Taiwan)

Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi) / Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne, National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei, Berliner Festspiele etc.

During an artistic residency in Taipei, Stefan Kaegi and Dominic Huber met many artists, industrialists and diplomats to paint a portrait of Taiwan, a unique territory that has gradually lost almost all its official diplomatic representation. Through the stories of a digital activist, a former diplomat and a musician and heiress to a bubble tea company, distinct viewpoints on Taiwan’s situation are told through models, simulations and video screenings. Together they create the dream of an ephemeral embassy, where theatrical fiction is woven through with the cultural and political history of this little-known region, acting as a mirror to our European democracies.

 “Die Gruppe Rimini Protokoll hisste in Wien die Flaggen. Und zeigte meisterhaft die Möglichkeiten - und Grenzen - des postdramatischen politischen Theaters.” Die Presse

“Es ist politische Aufklärung im besten Sinne, aber auch ästhetisch in eine überzeugende Form gebracht.” DLF Kultur

“Der geniale Szenograf Dominic Huber und sein Team blenden dafür fotografische Klappbilder mit vorproduzierten und live übertragenen Videos ineinander, sodass auf großen Stoffbahnen im Hintergrund eine verdichtete Taiwanwelt entsteht, in der die persönlichen Leben der drei Experten ineinanderfließen mit humanistischer Utopie und wikipediaformatiger Weltgeschichte.” Berliner Zeitung

Link to the Rimini Protokoll Website with more reviews, materials and touring dates

Concept and direction
Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)

With
Chiayo Kuo
Debby Szu-Ya Wang
David Chienkuo Wu

Dramaturgy and assistant director
Szu-Ni Wen

Set design
Dominic Huber

Video
Mikko Gaestel

Music
Polina Lapkovskaja (Pollyester)
Debby Szu-Ya Wang
Heiko Tubbesing

Research Taïwan Yinru Lo / Video shooting Philip Lin / Light Pierre-Nicolas Moulin ▼/ Co-dramaturgy Caroline Barneaud ▼/ Assistant director Kim Crofts / Assistant set designer Matthieu Stephan / Outside eyes Aljoscha Begrich Viviane Pavillon / Production Europe Tristan Pannatier ▼/ Production Taïwan Chin Mu (NTCH) / General technical manager Quentin Brichet ▼/ Stage manager Bruno Moussier ▼/ Sound managers Charlotte Constant ▼Ludovic Guglielmazzi ▼/ Video managers Sebastian Hefti ▼Nicolas Gerlier ▼ / Lighting managers Pierre Nicolas Moulin ▼ Jean-Baptiste Boutte ▼/ Props Séverine Blanc ▼ Clélia Ducraux ▼ Mathieu Dorsaz ▼ / Set construction Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne ▼ /

Production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne ▼ National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei

Coproduction
Rimini Apparat
Berliner Festspiele
Volkstheater Wien
Centro Dramático Nacional Madrid
Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Festival d'Automne à Paris
National Theatre Drama / Prague Crossroads Festival

With the support of
Centre culturel de Taïwan à Paris
Prix Tremplin Leenaards / La Manufacture
Le Cercle des mécènes du Théâtre de Vidy