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Dystopia.shakespeare.Remix
The DYSTOPIA.shakespeare.REMIX show is about the apocalyptic end of today’s degrading world. Inspired by video games, the show breaks down and mixes together parts from several of Shakespeare’s works, resulting in an original script on power and the various devious ways in which it manifests itself. From a simple, modern, yet 100% Shakespearian, perspective, the show keeps several different forms of manipulation under close scrutiny.
DYSTOPIA.shakespeare.REMIX raises simple questions about mankind, its violent nature that continues to grows trying to keep the pace of ‘society’s evolution’, about the different ways to manipulate and brainwash others, the dehumanization of everyday life that is desperately trying to compete with its virtual world counterparts.
9G at TNB is a project in partnership with the Researching and Theatrical Creation Center ‘Ion Sava’ and it is aimed at young theatre developers. The 9G project takes place at the Small Hall, a space designed exclusively for young artists. At the end of the project auditioning stage, where 42 plays were submitted, the jury (composed of Ilinca Tomoroveanu, Cristiana Gavrilă, Mașa Dinescu and Violeta Popa) selected seven shows that would advance to the rehearsals’ stage:
Translated by Silvia-Ecaterina Constantinidis
MTTLC, University of Bucharest
