Cast: Andrew Clarke, Julius Böhm, Paul Boche, Marie Mai, Vincent Kadus und Thea Rasche.
Text and Direction: Hannah Rumstedt
Stage: Jakob Gerber & Hannah Rumstedt
Dramaturgy: Christoph Reinhardt
Music: Andrew Clarke
Costume: Stadtmission e.V.
Production: Bühnen im Haus der Statistik e.V.
Text and Direction: Hannah Rumstedt
Stage: Jakob Gerber & Hannah Rumstedt
Dramaturgy: Christoph Reinhardt
Music: Andrew Clarke
Costume: Stadtmission e.V.
Production: Bühnen im Haus der Statistik e.V.
The time has come: the machines are taking over. At least one printing machine called Mark is. It is replacing humans at NIE THEATER. By the way: spectators must stay outside—for their own safety.
A chaotic revue in 90 minutes, premiering on October 10, 2019, with the last performance on September 29, 2020, at the Haus der Statistik. In the middle of the stage stands an original Heidelberg platen press, an industrial production tool that the fictional ensemble has seized in order to avoid having to work anymore.
My dear Scholli, I'm almost breathless at this offer of freedom. Its excesses entail an all-encompassing hunger for images. This freedom pumps and pumps... In the last century, it was the trail of stones, but this has been replaced by the trail of images. Constant viewing makes us short-sighted; history becomes blurred. Information as deformation as imitation of the self.
And in the middle of our islands, the machines wait. Haptic matters amid loud egos. But who is that? cries the voice from the blinded magic lamp of Europe. “Is that work you're doing?” It's not difficult to come up with an answer: work on the individual is just a form of survival in apparent meaninglessness. And even that has taken so many forms. Refusal is one of them. Incidentally, conscience awakens somewhere in poorly carved leisure time. Between the cry of the machine. In the silence. The rain. The flesh.
Someone calls out: “The best way to get information is to give some yourself.” After the end of the working day died with growth. It no longer exists. No, it's not even a variable anymore.
Me. That's us. That is and will remain.
To give in so easily would be a mistake as fatal as death.
Ladies and gentlemen, experience an exclusive evening!
Experience it and don't be affected.
Because we are already affected enough."
- Christoph Reinhardt, 2020
