Hikikomori

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Hikikomori is a Moks production presented within Junges.Theaterbremen at the Brauhauskeller. The event page identifies Holger Schober as author, Klaas Bartsch as director, and Christoph Vetter as the actor. It describes Bartsch, then a Moks assistant director, as undertaking his first directing assignment. The listed running time is one hour without an interval. The production centers its visual world on the protagonist's room, which also functions as his self-imposed enclosure. Official credits assign stage, costume, and music to Zora Hünermann, Alexander Pfeiffenberger, and Marvin Uhde; Rebecca Hohmann is credited for dramaturgy and Jörg Hartenstein for lighting. The production presents hikikomori as a term for the more or less self-chosen isolation of young people who refuse contact with the outside world, a phenomenon extending beyond Japan to Europe and the United States.