項目背景  

五百米長城約五年內可以建造完成，在這之後，那些領班們通常已經精疲力竭，百無聊賴，對自己、對長城和整個世界都失去了信心。（卡夫卡）

紙老虎戲劇工作室的這一項目以卡夫卡的《中國長城建造時》為出發點，結合調研和對參與當代大型工程（如寧波-舟山港區改造）的建築師和工人的訪談，以表演的形式探究了一個對卡夫卡來說也同樣重要的核心問題：“修建長城”這樣大興土木的意義究竟何在？人們如何能在心裡忍受這些無休止的工程？建造中國長城不是一個人的傑作，而是跨時代的集體行為。卡夫卡稱它為一種“聯合民眾的重要手段”。

在中國人看來，卡夫卡對長城的解讀蘊藏著驚人的哲理。這就再次要求我們發揮想像：卡夫卡描繪長城，其實也在暗喻那些一面孜孜不倦地改造世界、一面卻又深陷迷惘之中的世人。

借助卡夫卡的歐洲視角，導演田戈兵走訪了中國當代的大型施工現場，也探索了不同文化之間引人入勝的交彙點。 

《500米：卡夫卡、長城，來自不真實世界的圖畫》即將全球首演：在這個夜晚，有著上千年歷史的中國傳說將在全球化的背景下嶄新亮相，源自歐洲和中國的想像也將相映生輝。

 

概念：田戈兵、Christoph Lepschy
導演：田戈兵

戲劇構作：Christoph Lepschy
舞台：Eva Veronica Born
編舞/服裝：王亞男
音樂：Piotr Kurek

演員：雷琰，王亞男、劉翔捷、連國棟、Szymon Czacki、徐一鳴、劉超、彭憶歐、Manel Salas Palau、 李斌、Lisa Tschanz/Juliane Elting
人声：Grzegorz Hardej、田原上

聯合制作：紙老虎戲劇工作室、世界戲劇節、漢堡塔利亞劇院、歌德學院 - 國際聯合製作基金、克拉科夫國立老劇院
支持：歌德学院（中国）•北京德国文化中心、上海明當代美術館、明園集團、深圳明時代文化傳播有限公司、密茨凱維奇學院

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Background

500 meters could be completed in roughly five years, by which time normally the supervisors were exhausted to death and had lost all faith in themselves, in the building, and in the world. (Franz Kafka)

Kafka’s text „The Great Wall of China“ is the starting point for the new project by Paper Tiger Theater Studio. Combined with research materials from architects, engineers and construction workers involved in today’s large-scale building projects like the huge harbour conversion in the Ningbo-Zhoushan-Region, it provides the base for a performative exploration of the fundamental question, raised by Kafka: What is the meaning of these “great wall buildings”? How does their unbelievable boundlessness affect the human soul? The Great Wall is not the work of an individual, but a collective action of the Chinese people beyond its own time. Kafka depicts it as ‘means of unification of our people’ („Einigungsmittel unseres Volkes“). It is crucial to realise, even from a Chinese perspective, that Kafka’s interpretation of the Great Wall is surprisingly accurate, though for him, perhaps, the Great Wall only exists as a personal and legendary imagination. Thus in turn he asks us to activate our own imaginations. We take Kafka’s image of the Great Wall as a signifier of the contemporary human’s endless action of reconstructing the world, in which the individual remains deeply confused. Such director Tian Gebing explores the large construction site of China’s present taking advantage of Kafkas European point of view and observing a similar context and a shared dimension between cultures. An evening, where the several-thousand-year-old history of China and its globalised present time are mirroring each other as well as European and Chinese phantasies of one another. 

Concept: Tian Gebing, Christoph Lepschy

Director: Tian Gebing

Dramaturgy: Christoph Lepschy

Stage: Eva Veronica Born

Choreography / Costume: Wang Yanan

Music: Piotr Kurek

Directors assistance/Translating: Liu Chao/ Peng Yi'ou

Cast: Lei Yan, Wang Yanan, Liu Xiangjie, Szymon Czacki, Lian Guodong, Peng Yi'ou, Liu Chao, Manel Salas Palau,Li Bin, Lisa Tschanz/Juliane Elting, Xu Yiming

Voice: Grzegorz Hardej, Tian Yuanshang

Coproduction by Paper Tiger Studio coproduced by Thalia Theater Hamburg, Festival Theater of the World, Goethe-Institut – International Coproduction Fund, Stary Theatre Krakow

With support from Goethe-Institut China, Shenzhen Ming Culture Communication Co. LTD, Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai, Mingyuan Group, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza