This Is Not An Embassy, now beginning a European tour, raises questions sure to infuriate China. The creative team explain why it is a risk worth taking
or most performers, the biggest fear about staging a new play is that no one will come. Or that an actor might forget her lines. For Chiayo Kuo, an activist, artist and diplomat, her biggest fear was that someone might shoot the cast.
“The play will tour around the world, and if any Chinese delegates are not happy to see it, I hope that all the aggression will only be directed towards me, and will not be extended to my family,” says Kuo. After being performed in Taiwan, the play was praised for representing different voices in Taiwan and showing diverse opinions towards China, the country where many – but not all – Taiwanese people originate, but which is intensifying threats to upend Taiwanese people’s way of life.
According to the director, the Swiss foreign ministry assured the production team that “we have freedom of artistic expression in this country. Nobody is in charge of censorship here.” The Swiss foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comment. Stefan Kaegi, the play’s Swiss-German director, recalls events in Munich: “They cancelled it a few weeks before. We don’t even know what exactly happened but you get paranoid. I guess somebody called. They never called us though. At the beginning, I was afraid that somebody might run on stage and harm us. We thought they would probably do something to interrupt one of the shows. But none of this happened.
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