Play by Roland Schimmelpfennig

At the beginning, the world seems to be in order. "Number 83: Pad Thai Gai: fried rice noodles with egg, vegetables, chicken and spicy peanut sauce, medium hot." But with this order, events in the Asian fast food restaurant "The Golden Dragon" take a turn for the worse. The young Chinese chef, who dares not go to the dentist without a residence permit, has a painful front tooth pulled in the oppressively cramped kitchen, where he conjures up all kinds of Far Eastern delicacies day after day to earn money for his trip from home. With a pipe wrench! And then the carious little tooth flies into the above-mentioned dish. Yes, straight into the wok. It is flicked out immediately and with a bold swing, but it flies further - straight into number 6: the spicy Thai soup with chicken and coconut milk. But that's not all. There are reports of failed marriages, of love and abuse, of prostitution, here of dependency and need. There are talking insects. Men play women. And women play men. Old is young. And young is old. And the Chinese cook, who is actually only looking for his sister in Germany, is not doing well at all. So the plot is heading towards catastrophe.

Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, which premiered in 2009 at the Vienna Burgtheater under the direction of the author, has lost none of its topicality. We are showing it for the first time in Upper Lusatia.