Demo version

An interactive theater game about democracy
with pirated copies and (partly distorted) quotations from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Lessing, Kloppstock, Goethe, Schiller, Frisch, Sid Meyer, Brett W. Sperry and others.
by Florian Heller

Direction and design:
Thorsten StrunkTechnology:
Michael KleinjohannProgramming:
Frank FuchsSound recordings: Malte Große

PLEASE BE SURE TO BRING YOUR OWN SMARTPHONE OR TABLET!

Today it's not: "Please turn off your cell phones!" -On the contrary: Demo Version, the interactive theater play penned by Florian Heller (dramaturge at Der Ruhrfaust and author of Stillstand and Ab durch die Mitte), requires the active participation of the audience. Through live voting and surveys on their own smartphones or tablets, the audience determines the course of the story. - Living democracy in the theater!

In this 'live computer game', the ensemble and audience join forces to explore the origins, functional principles, limits and dangers of the social order we have been accustomed to for 80 years - and all too often maligned as stolid and inefficient. With humor, speed and lots of cultural and pop-cultural quotes!