I never quite had the time to fully acclimatise to the UK as I have been in Berlin these last few days preparing for tonight’s performance. That said, Germany seems very similar to the UK from the Chinese point of view. What has surprised me was when doing the bilingual translation of the Chinese text I will speak the German and English look so similar. I sort of knew they were related but when it comes down to some of the words being identical it is too much. It seemed to take a long time to make the powerpoint subtitling text but it is done and that gives me one more thing to worry about during the performance: cueing the subtitles.
The space and programme is rather good, it is a gallery cum museum space and a dedicated programme of performances. I think I may have changed too much of the performance but it seems like Grimmuseum is a space to experiment so if I can’t do that here then I won’t do it anywhere.
