Electronic City

Falk Richter

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Dr Marlene J Norst

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Tom can’t remember where he is. Everywhere he travels is bland and anonymous. Joy has worked for a string of global companies and can’t remember either. They grasp at any fleeting chance to connect.  

Does technology bring human beings closer despite distance, or does it entice us to move further apart? Are our clever devices divisive?

Electronic City is a surreal, physical piece that tracks Tom and Joy as their worlds fragment: technology malfunctions; they are lost, confused, and rendered dysfunctional. What they ultimately need is one another: love and human contact.

directed by Kenneth Roraback
visual design Christina Chen
sound design Samuel Phillips

with performances by
Allison Berke
Larissa Estrada
Jonas Kubilius
Yuri Podpaly
Estevan Martinez
Laurel Ruhlen

Electronic City was first produced October 4, 2003, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Germany, under the direction of Matthias Hartmann.