Black Tie

Black Tie (2008) by Rimini Protokoll (Germany). Black Tie is a monologue-driven biographic theatre performance springing out from and revolving around the life of the performer Miriam Yung Min Stein.

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(Objekt ID 8356)
Object type Production
Premiere April 16, 2009
Produced by Rimini Protokoll
Coproducers Hebbel am Ufer,
Audience Youth, Adults
Language English and Korean
Keywords Theatre, Post-dramatic theatre, Biographical theatre, Documentary, Lecture, Multidisciplinary, Music, Monologue, Research
Running period December 11, 2008  
Website Rimini Protokoll - Black Tie

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In the performance Black Tie Rimini Protokoll poses the rhetorical question: How can one tells one’s own story when it, as in the case of Stein, only can be documented from the moment she landed in an airport in Germany?

As a baby Stein was adopted to Germany from Southern Korea and the papers from the orphanage she came from only tells her that she was found in a box in Southern Korea in 1977, wrapped in newspapers. Based in this information and the thoughts Stein has about her own life, the audience gets a view into her reflections about adoption and her own origins.

Source: Wegge, Sara, Julie Rongved Amundsen and Kristian Seltun (ed.) (2009). Rimini Protokoll. Black Tie. Program for Black Box Teater Oslo: Spring 2009. Black Box Teater [Oslo]

Contributors (16)
Name Role
Helgard Haug – Direction
Daniel Wetzel – Direction
Peter Dick – Music
Sebastian Brünger – Dramaturge
Grit Schuster – Visual design (interaksjonsdesigner)
Helgard Haug – Stage design
Daniel Wetzel – Stage design
Marc Jungreithmeier – Lighting design
Hye-Jin Choi – Performer
Miriam Yung Min Stein – Performer (seg selv)
Peter Dick – Musician
Dorit Abiry – Director’s assistant
Heidrun Schlegel – Production manager
Sina Gentsch – Assistant (scenografi)
Tobias Üffinger – Assistant (interaksjonsdesig)
Sebastian Brünger – Other (research)
Performance dates
April 17, 2009 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) visiting performance
April 16, 2009 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) National premiere, Norway
Festivals (1)
Marstrand April 16, 2009
Press coverage

"Miriam Stein outlines the facts soberly and completely without teary sentimentality. The more drily she describes the global adoption business, the clearer its obscenity becomes. "Angelina Jolie has ruined the price of African babies." The fact that the viewer does not become a voyeur is due on the one hand to the impressive Miriam Stein herself, who puts her own life into a larger context very reflectively, with mockery and polemic, but free of all self-pity. (...) For all its documentary clarity, the Rimini piece is anything but a sticky-sweet public soul searching. Rather it is a carefully-constructed performance, which is on many levels about that most essential thing: identity."

Peter Laudenbach (19.12.2008), I WAS 7 7 2 1 7 8, Süddeutsche Zeitung [München]