LOVE THEATRE – Tue Biering

I DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE YOU HAPPY

FIX&FOXY

THE PUMP STATION, COPENHAGEN MAY 2015

We are moving a small part of Thailand, the focal point of sex tourism, to Copenhagen: A Thai hotel room and a sex worker who reenacts her life – with the audience as customers. An extremely intimate notion of a global phenomenon, communicated through touches, smells, sounds and the meeting with another human being.

Ping Pong usually lives in the Thai city of Chiang Mai and has been a sex worker with Thai and Western men as clients, friends, boyfriends and relationships for 20 years. She is a participant in our sensual and playful analysis of what sex tourism is and what it says about our world and our identity. Why do so many people travel so far to have an intimate relationship?

In the performance, 10 spectators enter a Thai hotel room together with Ping Pong. Here, one at a time, in turn, they help revive meetings Ping Pong has had with customers. She directs them and leads them individually through the scenes. What happens when you meet at a beer bar in Thailand?

A performance that is of course about sex, but also all the other needs we have. Like love, for example.

Cast:

Ping Pong (born Thanta Laovilawanyakul)

Idea and direction: Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen

Scenography: Sille Don’s Heltoft

Sound Design: Rasmus Kreiner

Lighting design: David Abad

Performance manager: Christine Seierstad

Stage Master: Maiken Bruun-Aamodt

Procurator: Josefine Else Larsen

Builders: Johan Brandt Richard, Lina Gallo, Rasmus Fredborg

Painter: Niels Bruun-Aamodt