Ausverkauft | Meta-Sleep

In the organizer's words:

1 hour 20 minutes - No break
To sleep, to dream, to detach oneself from one's own existence, to transcend physical and social boundaries, to be free: In LEONCE UND LENA, Georg Büchner has his two title characters experience a shared dream. However, it is not death that is ultimately the way out of the tight corset of social expectations, but transformation. Transformed into automatons, the two royal children return to courtly society in order to escape the predestination of an arranged marriage. And must realize that their fate has long since overtaken them.
LENA. Death is the most blessed dream. LEONCE. So let me be your angel of death! Let my lips lower to your eyes like his wings. To sleep, to dream, to detach oneself from one's own existence, to transcend physical and social boundaries, to be free: In LEONCE UND LENA, Georg Büchner lets his two title characters experience a shared dream. However, it is not death that is ultimately the way out of the tight corset of social expectations, but transformation. Transformed into automatons, the two royal children return to courtly society in order to escape the predestination of an arranged marriage. Director and musician Robert Borgmann takes the motifs of dream and transformation as the starting point for an artistic investigation into body boundaries, redemption, posthumanism and artificial intelligence. It is an ancient dream of mankind that is re-dreamed in connection with current digital and virtual possibilities - medieval alchemy meets AI. An artistic border crossing between music theater and installation, meditation and performance, META-SLEEP is an installation through which the audience moves together with the performers. Some seating is available. Strobe lights and loud music are used. Service staff will be happy to hand out earplugs. Photos may be taken during the performance and shared on social media! #schauspielköln #robertborgmann #metasleep Digital Program Booklet PRESS VOICES "An aura of the mysterious spreads." KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU "Director Borgmann makes the utopia of rebirth 2.0 sensually tangible through the multi-layered use of means." choices.de "More consistently than in some of his earlier works, in which he still struggled with the narrative structures of the texts in a way that was adequate for a peep-show, the (eminently ambitious) theater inventor Robert Borgmann treads new ground this evening. This is very special, but suggestive in effect and always stimulating." nachtkritik.de This content has been machine translated.