Pieces of Mind

In the wide, wide ocean a lonely red ball is drifting around. Rocked back and forth by the waves, it seems forgotten in time and space. An ordinary ball, lost somewhere along the way? Suddenly the ocean surrounding it is changing, and the waves seem to take on shapes and forms: Wave spirits emerge and the sea is transformed into a landscape, a figure. A story comes into being. A magical ball?

The audience follows the trail of the red ball and sets out on a journey into a fantastic world full of poetic figures, human marionettes, a peculiar pair of lovers and dangerous animals. A world which continuously re-invents itself from within.

“Pieces of Mind” is a kind of figure theatre (puppet theatre), which has never been seen before in Myanmar. Over the course of the past few weeks, twelve young Burmese puppeteers from the University of Fine Arts and Drama in Yangon and Mandalay developed this piece during a workshop with the German puppet artist Anne Klatt. What has emerged is a scenic kaleidoscope, where materials such as “parachute” and “ball” are transformed into figures and moments which mirror our human consciousness and feelings: Power and powerlessness, longing, love and desire for a sense of belonging. Figure play, movement and drama are brought together in visual narrative style where words are superfluous.

The director of this workshop, Anne Klatt, runs her own figure theatre in Tübingen, is a lecturer at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, and during the last couple of years she has travelled all over Europe, South-America, Africa and Asia to hold figure theatre workshops.

This evening promises a fascinating and hitherto unparalleled theatrical event on the small studio stage of the famous Lim Chin Tsong Palace, the State School of the Arts. The students will perform their piece for the first time and cordially invite you to be a part of this small workshop performance, and to engage in a conversation about the piece afterwards. Come and let yourself be enchanted by these young puppeteers and their “Pieces of Mind”!

Since this intimate space only has 120 seats, we offer three performances and kindly ask you to make a binding registration for one of the three evenings. The performance is also suitable for children.

Please make a booking here: https://bookwhen.com/de/goethe-institut-myanmar

We kindly ask you to bring the booking confirmation to the event.