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This is a research theatre piece that enters from a pictorial perspective.

It begins with an 18th-century painting, “The Hacking of the Mask”, from the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Asian Museum, Staatliche Kunst Museum, Berlin).

The painting was created by the Italian painter Lang Shining. It was commissioned by the Qing Emperor Qianlong and is part of a series of paintings of the war to pacify Junggar. It is a combination of Western realistic modelling and traditional Chinese ‘literati painting’ aesthetics. The painting was originally housed in the Ziguangge of the Forbidden City in Beijing, but when the Eight-Power Allied Forces occupied Beijing in 1900, the painting was brought to Germany, where it is now stored in Berlin, and will be exhibited from time to time in the Humboldt Forum (the former Prussian Royal Palace).

The story of the painting leads us to the art historians, Lang Shining, Qianlong and the former head of catering at the court. It leads to more historical facts and images of East-West interactions in modern history. It brings out the different spatial narratives of the palace, the black market and the museum. The painting is a ghostly arrow that travels through history to the present day.

The ghostly arrow is also a probe and a fuse to penetrate, reflect, and criticise the colonial evils and the pain of history

On Stage Team：

Paper Tiger Theater Studio

Director: TIAN Gebing

Actors: Raul Aranha, Simon Chatelain, Sara Ezzel, FU Yifei, GONG Zhonghui, Thomas Halle, Hans-Jürgen Schreiber, SU Shiding, WANG Yanan, XU Yiming

Choreographer: WANG Yanan

Stage Design: Eva Veronica Born

Dramaturg: Christoph Lepschy & Jan Linders

Music: Suzuki Mieko

Costume Concept: CHEN Shuyu, WANG Yanan

Video Designer: Andreas König, Julia Kuhnert

Stage Lighting: Bastian Vogel

Assistant Director/Stage Manager: LI Jingwen

Stage/Costume Assistant: FENG Wanqi

Video Shooting Team: TONG Xin,JIANG Dingding

Chief Carpenter：Amos-Peter Mayer

Producer：Sebastian Schlootz

Head Management：Mary Aniella Petersen

Thanks：Fonds Darstellende，Shenzhen Ming Culture Communication Co.Ltd

Performance：Paper Tiger Theater Studio

Production：Humboldt Forum Foundation at the Berlin Palace

21^st April 2023 World premiere