Doppelgänger
Digital animation and robotics are among the most modern performance technologies. Yet they are also the latest incarnations of humankind’s oldest theatrical forms based on moving images—shadow theater—and on objects embodying the human form—puppetry. So, it should come as no surprise that the artists involved in this festival bringing together digital animation and shadow theater, puppetry and robotics have a shared taste for literary classics and epic narrative structures. Works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Kafka and Ramayana are on the program; so is one about an artistic genius of the last century, and another about Linz’s two most famous schoolboys. As a special added attraction: a fictional journey to Bollywood for a humorous, ironic encounter with Mumbai’s film industry.
WHAT // International theatre festival
WHEN // October 8 – 21, 2009
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
gold extra (AT): BLACK BOX - Theater für acht ferngesteuerte Roboter
Gold Extra: BLACK BOX - Theater für acht ferngesteuerte Roboter
Copyright: Cornelia Anhaus
BLACK BOX: Irresistible sci-fi theatre from Salzburg-based artist group gold extra. A classroom full of low-tech robots perform as their end of year assignment the timeless human classic play Hamlet. Our mechanized protagonists do their best to follow the apparently illogical actions of Shakespeare’s characters and then find themselves required to compute an answer to the question “To be or not to be?” A charming and ironic view of the future, the limits of humanity and our desire for immortality.
WHEN // 13 – 14 October, 8 pm
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
Category: Festival, Theatre
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