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.
Information
(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 |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
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]
| 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) |
| April 17, 2009 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) (Marstrand) | visiting performance |
| April 16, 2009 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) (Marstrand) | National premiere, Norway |
| Marstrand | April 16, 2009 |
"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]