‘I Don’t Care’: Identity in play at German-Thai performance

Thai and German performers will bring the stories of eight transgender people to the stage at the premiere of I Don’t Care starting Thursday and continuing the next weekend. 

The collaboration between experimental troupe B-Floor Theatre and Munich’s Residenztheater brings to the stage body movement and visual media based on interviews with eight trans people in both countries.

“With differences in context and society, eight trans people from Thailand and Germany have striven to find a way towards self-identification, driven by an urgency for clarity yet not without a sense of uncertainty,” organizers said. “Some made decisions in childhood and adolescence; others in puberty or in a partnership, all against the daily pressure and vulnerability that prevented them from transforming into the person they really wanted to be.”

The performance aims to show the…