SOOJIN OH
SCENIC DESIGN
AM BODEN
(Grounded)
drama by George Brant (2013)
stage design: Soojin Oh
director: Sarah Johanna Steinfelder
costume: Adèle Lavillauroy
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe / Germany
premiere: 16.06.2018
(photos: Felix Grünschloss)
(from the original German text)
“(...) The play deals not least with the ever-increasing emotional disconnect of the “new” style of warfare, somewhere in some war around the world, as “armchair warriors” without personal risk, almost killing as a daily routine between family and work, leading to a psychological breakdown due to the merging of “virtual” fates with the identities of one’s own family. Sithembile Menck brilliantly brought this to life. Together with director Sarah Steinfelder, dramaturge Roland Marzinowski, on the essential focused stage design by Soojin Oh, and the precisely placed songs by AC/DC or Elvis, Menck has developed the 120-minute monologue in such a way that it can become a highly recommended form of “mind cinema”, which, in a broader sense, raises the question of presence with simultaneous physical absence. The premiere audience enthusiastically applauded.” - Badische Neueste Nachrichten (written by Brigitte Zikesch)