Wie der Wind im Ei, the second drama by the Hamburg basde Japanese author Yoko Tawada, is an elegiac excursion into poetical, magical worlds. The piece is atmospherically charged by an intangible tension between imagination and reality, between proximity and distance. Distances also played a central role in Tawada’s first stage production at the steirischer herbst festival in 1993, Die Kranichmaske die bei Nacht strahlt. Where this play, in the tradition of Japanese Nô-theatre, focused on the borderline between life and death, in her new piece the author assumes an opposite standpoint with regard to the subject matter: Wie der Wind im Ei is a light footed allegory to writing as a female act of creation, an Asiatic-European bridge between fantastic (head) birth and epic experience of reality.

Text: Yoko Tawada
Director: Ernst M. Binder
Set design: Luise Czerwonatis
Costumes: Christina Budniewski
Light design: Lukas Kaltenbäck
Choreography: Dieter Baumann
Music: Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski
Actors: Jutta Hell, Imma Sarries-Zgonc, Lucie Teisingerova, Yoko Tawada

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