Thomas Lenden

GPO Box No.211 is a language-free interdisciplinary performance combining object theatre, robotics, and new materialism. The audience is invited to wander through the space. The work is inspired by an exchange of letters with our friend Siu Ming (a pseudonym), who was incarcerated as a political prisoner for three years following the 2019 pro-democracy protests.

GPO Box No.211 was the address used for sending these letters. The performance invites audiences on a journey of visual reflection on themes of freedom of expression, isolation, and communication through the lens of object theatre.

Winner of the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2024, Switzerland.

“Beside its poetry, we esteem the ways in which the work transports our gazes and unpretentiously searches for a theatrical language that can speak for itself when words are not allowed, bodies are controlled and oppressed.” — ZKB Acknowledgement Prize Jury

*The August 15th & 16th performances of GPO Box No.211 will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: Theatre du Poulet
Co-creator, Director & Light Designer: Carmen Lee
Co-creator, Performer, Mask Designer & Paper Creature Programmer: Chun Shing Au
Dramaturgy Advice: Rebekka Bangerter
Artistic Advice: Sodja Zupanc Lotker
Choreography Advice: Jana Jacuka
Sound Designer: Moa Holgersson
Composer: Marko Ivic

Special thanks to: Fish, Pearlmi, Keith Ng, Miguel Angel Melgares, Marjorie Boston, DAS Theatre, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, André Veltkamp Award