The Golden Dragon

Chosen as play of the year in the 2010 Theater Heute yearbook critics survey. A funny and theatrical fable of modern life and migration, whisking you from your local takeaway to East Asia and back, revealing what really goes into that bowl of spicy soup. Are you hungry yet?

Dramatically focused and unobtrusively intelligent

Compelling - this play challenges the audience - recommended.

Schimmelpfennig's slow burn of a play offers another way of seeing - The beauty of the piece, and Ramin Gray's production, is that it reveals itself quietly and gradually - its intelligence and thoughtfulness is apparent

Schimmelpfennig succeeds in making abstract notions about globalisation - and immigration - grippingly tangible - served up with copious helpings of inventive wit.., superb

Provocative and playful - the surreal theatricality of this distinctive piece is vigorously conveyed

The play works by restraint - weaving its spell slowly but surely, with a spider's web delicacy - There are strong elements of folk tale to this story of exploitation in a globalised economy. Schimmelpfennig uncovers the nasty things that get shoved out of the sight of well-fed Westerners.

Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. He has worked as a journalist, translator and dramaturg, and is currently writer in residence at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Schimmelpfennig's widely performed plays include Vorher/Nachher, Push Up, Vor Ianger Zeit im Mai, MEZ, Keine Arbeit fur die junge Frau im Fruhlingskleid, Fisch um Fisch and Aus den Stadten in die Walder, Aus den Waldern in die Stadten.