Hikikomori

Hikikomori

Young Audiences
Deutsch
Cast

1M

“Hikikomori” is the Japanese name for a phenomenon in which people – mostly youths – consciously withdraw from the outside world. These recluses shut themselves up in their homes and lead a completely virtual life – their only communication with others taking place in Internet chat rooms or through video games. Sociologists have likened this refusal to participate in society to a “social hunger strike“. There are already more than a half a million hikikomori –mainly young men – practising this kind of self-imposed exile in Japan.

However, Holger Schober’s one-man play isn’t about Japan. It’s the story of H. and his dangerous attempt to shut out the world. H. hasn’t left his room in months when he unexpectedly gets the chance to lead a “normal” life. He enters into a relationship with a mysterious girl named Rosebud, whom he meets in a chat room. But even this opportunity to escape from his self-imposed imprisonment proves illusory.

World premiere
19.01.2006 Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße, Wien

Translations
Arabian (Translator: Nabil Haffar)
Estonian (Translator: Vahur Aabrams)
Italian (Translator: Agnese Cornelio)
Romanian (Translator: Ciprian Marinescu)

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