Documentary Theatre: IT’S TIME TO GET OLD!

Imagining the Future Together Through Intergenerational Dialogue

Time: Sunday, September 20, 2:00–5:00 PM

Location: Hamburg (the exact address will be provided upon successful registration)

Number of participants: 15

Facilitator: Wang Guanghao

Wang Guanghao is a theatre director and creator. His work A Hundred Million Billion Billion Bytes of Life (2021) was selected for the Script Market of the Berliner Theatertreffen. His theatre works include Understanding Media (2022), The Cliff Village on Earth (2023), A Wonderful Journey into Intangible Cultural Heritage (2023), and IT’S TIME TO GET OLD! (2024). He received the 2024 Aranya Theatre Festival “Future Theatre · Gold Award” and the 2025 Shanghai Jing’an Modern Drama Festival “One Theatre Award.” His work consistently engages with issues in contemporary society and explores the integration of new media, such as video games, into the language of theatre.

Organizer: German Association for Asian Arts

Through theatre games and performance exercises, this workshop invites participants to exchange ideas, negotiate different perspectives, and imagine the future together. By sharing and engaging with different viewpoints, we will explore both our commonalities and differences, rethink who “we” are, and consider what kind of world we are facing together.

Q&A

1. What is the core purpose of this workshop?

Through art, games, and dialogue, the workshop invites participants of different ages and backgrounds to share their perspectives and imaginations about the present and the future. By exploring differences and finding points of connection, we hope to rethink together who “we” are and the world we face, while creating new visions of the future.

2. What is its specific relationship to the performance?

The workshop continues the intergenerational dialogue and exchange developed in IT’S TIME TO GET OLD!, while shifting the theme from football and ageing to our present-day imagination of the future.

3. Will the “future scenes” created at the end be spontaneous improvisations, or will they become part of a future artistic work?

The workshop will primarily consist of live improvisation. There is no expectation or intention for the final outcome to become a complete artistic work. The “future scenes” are intended as exercises within the workshop and as starting points for further dialogue, with no plans to develop them into an artistic production.

4. Will participants’ stories, statements, or performances be recorded and used in future artistic projects?

No. Photos will be taken during the workshop, and a group photo will be taken at the end of the event. These images will be used solely for documentation by the event organizers. Participants’ stories, statements, or performances will not be used in subsequent artistic projects.

Participants who do not wish to appear in photos facing the camera can inform the staff in advance, and we will make every effort to avoid taking identifiable front-facing photographs of them.

5. In what capacity and with what expectations do participants take part?

We invite everyone to participate as “inhabitants of the Earth,” coming together to discuss and imagine our shared past and future. There are no specific roles or requirements. Everyone is a participant, experiencer, and learner, joining with an open and equal mindset and discovering and gaining something through the process of exchange and shared experience.

6. Is there anything participants need to prepare in advance?

No preparation or special requirements are necessary. All you need is a willingness to participate, communicate, and explore. Please wear comfortable everyday clothes that allow you to move freely. There is no need to change into sportswear.