Between 1910 and 1940, as new immigrants flowed through the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants faced massive discrimination because of America’s earliest racist immigration legislations. This captivating one-act music-theatre performance tells their stories. Composed by Huang Ruo, the music of ANGEL ISLAND is inspired by the Chinese poems […]

BLKDOG is street dance as you’ve never seen it before. Hailed by The Guardian as “a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory”, BLKDOG is a delicate and brutal commentary on how today's youth are coping in a world not built for them. Using hip hop in a contemporary style powered by high-energy moves and […]

Exploring English as the predominant language of political power, LOLLING AND ROLLING is a powerful one-man show that traces the shadow of linguistic imperialism within Korean society, and questions its impact on the “inaudible voice” of the subaltern. Lolling and Rolling takes as a starting point the phenomenon of tongue-tie surgery, an operation performed in […]

In this game-inspired immersive and participatory performance, award-winning theatre company Ontroerend Goed invites you to become part of the elite 1% who control the global economy. There may be no time for ethics; you’re in to win. Things get complicated: you can up your risk, trade in debt, make mergers and acquisitions.  Taste the heady […]

What can a bunch of talkative rice cookers tell us about the past twenty years of Korean history? One day when his electric rice cooker informed him that his meal was ready, Jaha Koo experienced a deep sense of isolation. ‘Golibmuwon’ (고립무원) is an untranslatable Korean word expressing the feeling of helpless isolation that characterises […]