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Public Space
(Der öffentliche Raum)
1F / 1M / 3 additional actors
Protest movements take many forms, be they loud street demonstrations or secret cabals of influential managers. The camps face off against one another, society is riven with division - just like the stage in Ulrike Syha’s play, which is divided into two areas. The audience, too, only see one side of the whole. On one side is a man, a career-focussed lawyer at a big conservative company whose need for security turns into paranoia. On the other side is a woman, a sociologist suspended from work because of the far-left views she expounds both online and offline. These two people are a couple, unified in their contrasts as well as in the fact that, unbeknownst to either, they are being watched. Cameras, hackers and «real life» stalkers monitor every step they take. In addition to the personal and political antagonisms, a third instance creeps in unnoticed, exerting control over «public space». «To be under surveillance is a fundamental state in the modern world.» For some, this idea is already part of a status quo they support. For others, it’s a dystopian nightmare. Here Ulrike Syha charts its ironic and eerie consequences.
World premiere
02.03.2020 Theater Drachengasse, Wien (Director: Sandra Schüddekopf)
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