Tea / Time & Love
(2026)

16 to 18 April 2026. Restaurant space at Nekala Cultural Centre, Tampere, Finland.

 

Production Info

Development support by Teostos Cultural Foundation.
In collaboration with TeeMaa, Teetao and Teehuone, Helsinki.
Presented as part of Tampere Biennale 2026.

Production Credits

Director and Dramaturg — Chong Gua Khee
Playwright and Visual Spatial Designer — Lola Barraud
Composer, Music Director and Guqin player — Jin Oh
Kantele player — Senni Vesanen
Koto player — Ayumi Shinomoto
Shakuhachi player — Kiku Day
Cast — to be confirmed

→ Credit: menimeri

Tea/Time & Love is an intercultural theatre performance about tea and love. Against a backdrop of actual tea drinking by actors and audience alike, a love story unfolds between two people from different cultures, accompanied by live guqin music that draws on Eastern and Western traditions.

In a world shaped by urgency and disconnection, this multisensorial work proposes a moment of pause: to sit, to listen, to taste, to feel. Through tea, language, and sound, the performance invites audiences to reflect on how we relate to ourselves and each other.

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Menimeri is a multidisciplinary collective composed of Chong Gua Khee, a Singaporean theater director-dramaturg, Lola Barraud, a French visual artist/writer, and Jin Oh, a Singaporean Western-trained composer with a traditional background in Guqin (Chinese zither). Together, we create works that weave together different cultures.