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“One human test after another, is it powerlessness, or numbness?”
This performance is developed from the German new text Cassandra – The End of Appearances.
“Bu Lou Dong La” means “from now on.” In 1988, Hong Kong implemented a new policy for Vietnamese boat people. From then on, anyone attempting to enter Hong Kong as a boat person for economic reasons would be considered an illegal immigrant, detained, and awaiting repatriation to Vietnam. In the 1970s and 80s, a large number of Southeast Asian refugees flooded into Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and other places, leaving the mark of “refugee camps” on the era's development. Today, in the 21st century, waves of refugee crises continue to occur worldwide. Starting with the Arab Spring, the European peninsula faced the largest refugee crisis in history, triggering the European refugee crisis. The mass smuggling of Africans into Europe, driven by desertification and oil pipeline pollution that makes farming and survival impossible, prompts reflection on capital and ecological destruction.
Adapted from the German new text Cassandra – The End of Appearances, the play tells the story of a woman who sets out from a small African village. Along the way, she keeps a diary, recounting her five-year journey across the desert to Europe. Her two sons are thrown off a boat, and she ultimately jumps into the sea herself. The adaptation incorporates audience interaction, directly confronting how we face and respond to the refugee issue.
Looking back on the “One Road One Belt” path, tracing from 21st-century Europe to 20th-century Asia, the refugee problem has never disappeared from the international stage despite social progress. In an economically dominant social system, how should we balance ethics and morality?
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