Your piece is titled "The Waiting Room." What does the term mean here?
For me, it's a space and a time in which people are, so to speak, "stuck" for a while, and at the same time, a space you enter and exit in a different direction.
While you're there, your possibilities are limited, but you can observe yourself: What do I want to be? Who do I want to be? And how does that differ from the other people around me? It's a time and a space in which everything stops.

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You connect this image with the theme of reincarnation. Can you describe that in more detail?
The concept of reincarnation assumes that there is life after death. You don't simply become nothing, but transform into a kind of energy that goes somewhere.
What follows depends on the experiences of that energy. In Buddhism, there is the idea of ​​reincarnation and karma. It is believed that you have to let go of everything in life in order to escape reincarnation. In Taoism, my homeland, there is more focus on balance, the yin and the yang, the good and the bad. What you do well in this life could come back to you in a later life. The "waiting room" is therefore the time and space in which the soul can pause and consider its next goal.

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How did you come up with the idea for your piece?
When traveling, for example, while boarding at the airport, I always really enjoy observing people. You start to notice how people dress, their body language, how they sit, how they read, and what they do in their free time. Thoughts often come to me like: What if I lived like them? ... if my life were like theirs and I made different decisions? And then the drama begins in my head...

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Which characters do we meet?
There are two hosts, whom I call Gatekeepers. You could also describe them as guardian angels of the room, or an angel and a demon, who speak to and guide you throughout your life. Three people in this play then go through trials. All have lived different lives. My question is: When you have complete freedom, is there a lesson you must learn in the course of each life? The three souls I imagine are actually the same person, the same being, but they experience their life three times in a different role. Each time, "she" or "he" will make a different decision, depending on the conditions under which the person was born, where they were born, how they were treated, and the geopolitical situation of the time. The same identity, the same personality in a different time and space... and it becomes a completely different story!