A workshop production of the classic absurdist Polish play by Slawomir Mrozek about three shipwrecked men on a raft. In Russian-Austrian director Ira Süssenbach’s interpretation, the raft as an analogy for our society, which has suffered a kind of “shipwreck”: the familiar concepts no longer work in the face of major crises such as climate change, right-wing extremism, wars, natural disasters, and mass migration.

Twelve scenes connected by a certain kind of extreme. Relationships, stereotypes, uncertainties, tensions. Language cut to the bone, silence that speaks. A network of intertwined happenings that lead to crossing our intimate border, to crossing our own portal, to the hope. To the future…

PLAY SCREENING, WORKSHOP

Screening of an experimental play written in full by a computer, followed by a workshop offering participants the chance to collaborate with a robot on composing a script.