Cooking Nanta to cook up a show in Vienna

Date and Time: 23 - 24 June 2012
Venue: MuseumsQuartier, VIENNA

Cookin' Nanta – will be cooking up a storm this summer when the action packed cooking and rhythmic spectacle direct from Korea hits Vienna on 23 and 24 June 2012 at the Museums Quarter.

The fast-paced show integrates unique Korean traditional drumbeats with a western performance style. Nanta storms into a huge kitchen where four cooks are preparing a wedding banquet. While cooking, they turn all kinds of kitchen items – pots, pans, dishes, knives, chopping boards, water bottles, brooms and even each other – into percussion instruments.

As they get ready to start the day, the unpleasant manager gives them some unexpected news. Not only do the chefs have to prepare the entire wedding meal by 6pm, but they also have to give the manager's nephew some cooking lessons. None of them are happy with the situation, but they set out to work.

In the process, they must solve a whole array of difficulties. Gradually, the audience and the players become one. Finally, they pull all their ideas together to finish the cream cake, and the ceremony proceeds without any troubles. In the course of the fantastic wedding party, the audience bonds through lots of laughter and humour, the friendly kitchen atmosphere, and above all five characters whose magnetic spirits create the various rhythms and sounds.

Cookin' Nanta is the most successful Korean show of all time and has been filling seats in Korean theatres since it premiered in 2007. It has since managed to wow Broadway as well as audiences around the world. It is a mixture of dance and non-verbal performance. Nanta itself is the name of a performance group form Seoul and literally translated as hammer away wildly – and is literally transformed into Korean drum rhythms, Korean music and dance.

COOKIN' NANTA will take place on 23 and 24 June 2012 at 16.30 and 20.30 at Halle E, Museums Quarter, Vienna.
Tickets cost 39 Euros and are available from www.oeticket.com
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