2024TIFA 國家兩廳院✕瑞士洛桑維蒂劇院——里米尼紀錄劇團《這不是個大使館》

Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll: This is not an Embassy

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對你來說，國家是什麼？

曾以《遙感城市》及《高雄百分百》掀起劇場旋風的德國里米尼紀錄劇團，這次將為臺灣量身打造全新文化外交之作！巡迴歐陸四大城市後，下一站將插旗TIFA，邀請你重新丈量島嶼邊界，直面多元議題，親身體驗獨特的外交處境。

橫跨三個世代的臺灣代表——退休大使、國際組織工作者、珍奶世家的音樂人，將以微型佈景與即時投影，帶來一場不存在的大使館開幕。歷經外交地震的他們，將透過場景中的角色訴說屬於自己的故事，一場單晚即逝的外交秀即將上演。

72歲的吳建國是一名退休的外交官，出身記者的他曾經任命至貝里斯擔任正式大使，也常駐南非、越南、泰國及紐西蘭等國家。他的名字「建國」，和許多那個時代出生的男嬰名字相同，彷彿成年人將風雨飄搖的中華民國茁壯期望，放在一個小男嬰的身上。

32歲的郭家佑是台灣數位外交協會的理事長，她以非典型的方式，發起過臺灣與25國的民間外交工作。從協助希臘難民、匈牙利吉普賽人拍攝紀錄片、到科索沃創業、越南成立公民外交咖啡館，她運用社群媒體的力量，為臺灣創造國際曝光。曾創下單篇貼文讓23萬烏克蘭人按讚支持臺灣的紀錄，並在2022年接受紐約時報採訪。

28歲的音樂家王思雅（Debby Wang），家族是全世界最大的珍珠奶茶原料供應商，從外公經營的一個小小的酸梅湯攤位開始，她的父親讓臺灣手搖茶飲文化走向全世界。恰如八零年代許多臺灣的生意人，帶著一卡皮箱走天下，在我們外交險峻的情況下，他們以「Ｍade in Taiwan」為臺灣創造了新的生命。

假作真時真亦假，如果這不是大使館，那什麼才是？如果這不是國家，那什麼才是？

Theater of diplomacy: Taiwan's unique and often misunderstood political status abroad is the subject of a play by Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll (Switzerland / Germany).

In This is not an Embassy, theater and diplomacy are brought together to portray modern Taiwan's representation abroad. The documentary play explores the island nation's current predicament vis a vis global politics, where its status as a country is constantly questioned, and most of its representations are not allowed to be officially referred to as "embassies."

A digital activist, a retired diplomat, and the heiress of a Taiwanese company that opened up the international market for bubble tea talk about their lives and simulate the opening of a "non-embassy". They perform music in a transformable film set model. With small cameras, they role play with miniatures that represent themselves in the mini-earthquakes of representation abroad.

The production is conceived by Stefan Kaegi and Rimini Protokoll, a German theater label known for using technology, creativity, and experts from outside of the theater world to examine social issues. It is made in conjunction with a Taiwanese team as part of a seven-week residency at National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei.

With this project, Kaegi highlights three very human and local answers to big questions like: What if the theater could create a "temporary, nomadic" representation of a territory, which will exist as a country on stage, even if only for the duration of the show?

Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre-label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality. Rimini Protokoll often develop their stage-works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology.

Stefan Kaegi creates documentary theatre plays, audio-interventions, curated formats and works in the urban environment in a diverse variety of collaborative partnerships. Using research, public auditions and conceptual processes, he often gives voice to 'experts' who are not trained actors but have something to tell. Most of his works are released under the label "Rimini Protokoll" - name of the berlin-based theatre collective he founded together with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel in the beginning of the millenium.

《這不是個大使館》

"This is not an Embassy"

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