- Induction loop
Induction loop
California / Grace Slick
| Termin | Odwołane: 25.03.2021, 19:00 |
| Premiera | 08.12.2017 |
| Miejsce | Marszałkowska 8 |
| Rodzaj programu | Spektakle |
| Informacje | Induction loop |
| Rodzaj wydarzenia | Performance |
| Reżyseria | René Pollesch |
Even if you don’t carry the latest iPhone in your pocket, technologies from Palo Alto – the heart of Silicon Valley, affect your life. Unlimited access to knowledge through the Internet, total digital control, new branches of e-businesses and the collapse of old analogue economy, virtual entertainment and online hate… all of that has changed the modern world. Are they a salvation or a threat? Can we exploit their real potential?
The latest production by René Pollesch, a distinguished director and dramatist from Berlin, is a journey to the origins of civilizational revolution that started in California in the 1960s. The performance is an attempt at understanding where the colonial expansion and the search for new territories have led the western civilization to. Our guide is Grace Slick, an American ‘60s rock star, hippie movement icon and symbol of the sexual revolution. Psychedelia and online business, sexual revolution and the space race, virtual worlds and start-ups meet in this perverse performance. “California / Grace Slick” is Pollesch’s third production in TR Warszawa after “Ragazzo dell’ Europa” and “Jackson Pollesch”.
For organized post-gymnasium school groups we offer introductory workshops to the performance (please contact the education department edukacja@trwarszawa.pl for more details).
Magda Hueckel photo
Reviews
- “The performance by Pollesh is one of the most interesting statements of 2017. It proves that one can make political theatre without paternalistic preaching, nostalgia for nothing specific, an escape into convenient narrations or catchy slogans.”
- “The actors are brilliant. Wasilewska, Tyndyk, Podsiadlik are trying to describe this world using various methods, interpretations, conventions. (…) All three of them roam this world with great unconstraint, devoting themselves totally to their tasks.”
- “This performance ridicules the egocentrism underpinned by Google and Instagram, which concerns (directly or indirectly) almost all of us.”
- “And this is probably the most important lesson that Pollesch gives us. (…) A lesson about suspicion – political theater in the deepest possible sense of the word.”