Kitty

Theatre: Kitty

Sun 25., Mon 26. & Tue 27.05., 20.30h, Halle G, Wiener Festwochen 2025

Artist Talk: Mon 26.05., following the performance

Theatre maker Satoko Ichihara stages the patriarchy’s mechanisms of oppression with a vicious, analytic and at the same time comic touch like no other. Inspired by Japan’s cutest hit export, the cartoon character Kitty, this new play is about female stereotypes, sex work and vegetarianism. If a woman wants to be attractive, she has to be childish, cute and innocent – like Kitty. With uninhibited honesty, Satoko Ichihara and her actors from Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong take us along into a not-quite-so-fictional world of ever-present pornography in which everything is turned into a commodity: meat, women, love. Satoko Ichihara is one of the most important voices of a new, actively feminist generation of theatre makers in Asia and has already caused a global sensation with her works.

Info: The performance contains depictions of physical and sexual violence. Stroboscopic effects are used in the performance.

Japanese, Korean and Cantonese, with German and English surtitles.