Hospitable Takeover by Brian Bell and Ensemble
Presented in 2019 by Schauspiel Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany
A team of public servants has come to escape room for team building exercises, but when they find that the room they have to escape is our current socio-political situation, they begin to daydream about 16-hour work weeks, universal basic incomes, and technologies that would make the current status quo obsolete.
Presented as part of the Rise of the Utopias festival from Undiscovered Narratives.
“the four perfectly cast, dynamic young actors are quick-witted and switched-on…they ponder about religion and culture, debate hotly, and go to battle in slow-motion. Until the “Tabula Rasa” makes clear, completely unpretentiously, that in the end the only way out is to work together. Theatre can hardly be more valuable.”
“a consistently brisk performance…, which works surprisingly well thanks to the lively, likeable and often clever interventions of the playing quartet—all of them …really athletically dynamic.
Credits
DIRECTION Brian Bell
ASSOCIATE DIRECTION/DEVISING COACHING Sam Hunter
SCENIC/COSTUME DESIGN Daniel Unger
CAST Martin Esser, Lisanne Hirzel, Patrick Wudtke and Andrea Zwicky
PHOTOS BY Nasser Hashemi and Daniel Unger