In Tea For Five: Opium Clippers, the audience participates in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Using five hand-painted ceramic tea sets, Neja Tomšič recounts some little-known episodes in Chinese history, combining drawing, poetry and performance. The routes of the tea and opium trade reveal stories of power, conflict, and colonization that led to the development of capitalism, with important consequences for contemporary economic policies.

CREDITS

Concept and drawings Neja Tomšič
Performer Silvia Viviani and Neja Tomšič
Ceramics Anja Slapničar
Music Gašper Torkar
Production Gledališče Glej in Neja Tomšič with MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art until 2018

Photo © Jaka Babnik

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Do you want to attend more than a show the same day? Purchase a ticket to Tea for Five at 18:30 and match it with Poetica, The Watching Machine