Time : 2017.8.25，19:30

Venue: Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), 436 East Yong He Road, Jing’an District

Concept:  TIAN Gebing, Christoph Lepschy

Director:  TIAN Gebing

Presented by McaM & Ming Yuan Group

A Production by Paper Tiger Theater Studio Beijing / Shanghai

Coproduced by Thalia Theater Hamburg, Festival Theater of the World, Goethe-Institut – International Coproduction Fund, Stary Theatre Krakow

From the beginning of the theater project 500 METERS: Kafka, Great Wall, Daily Heroism and Images from An Unreal World, McaM has been following and supporting the project. After its world premiere at Theater der Welt 2017 in Thalia Theater Gaußstr, Hamburg Germany, it will be presented as its China premiere at McaM (Shanghai, China) this August.

Kafka lived in a poky room located in old Jewish area of Prague, while portraying a bewildering and magnificent construction project of the ancient empire– the Great Wall of China. With Kafka’s novel as the starting point of this new project, combined with contemporary large-scale projects (such as Region Ningbo -Zhoushan port reconstruction) research and interviews with its architects and workers, Paper Tiger Theater attempts to explore a core issue performatively: how about the relationship between the time-transgressive and transgenerational collective action of people, such as the construction of the Great Wall, and us? Are the contemporary human beings tireless transforming the world, while the individual remains deeply confused?