Image Credit: Emergency Stairs
“In the theatre, who holds the master key that opens every door?”
Directed by Shanghai-based director Selena Lu, this production transforms the stage into a site of "Practice-As-Research". Moving away from conventional scripts, the ensemble engages in a radical experiment: "shadowing" and interviewing the invisible figures who keep the institution running—from technicians and administrative staff to janitors.
By examining who directs and who obeys, who is seen and who remains hidden, Backstage Protocol maps the invisible hierarchies and power dynamics embedded in arts education. This is a physical report on "access": Within this rigid architecture of privilege, are we the masters of our agency, or merely expendable parts within a pre-determined protocol?.
Emergency Stairs disrupts the status quo once again, launching a social inquiry into “Access and Power” within the institution.
“剧场里，谁握有那把开启所有房间的万能钥匙？”
由上海导演吕雨舟执导，本作将舞台转化为“实践即研究（Practice-As-Research）”的现场。演员们放下了既定剧本，开启一场激进的突围：他们深入“影随”并访谈那些维系机构运转、却隐形于大众视野的边缘角色——从技术人员、行政职员到清洁工。
通过解剖指挥与服从、可见与被忽略，《后台协议》勾勒出潜伏在艺术教育背后的权力架构与特权层级。这是一份关于“准入权限”的身体报告：在这一套森严的架构中，我们究竟是拥有自主意识的主体，还是仅仅在协议规训下被磨损的耗材？
避難階段再度打破常规，于学院体制的内里，发起一场关于“准入与权力”的社会调查。