The Time Being
Do you look forward to or rather dread the future when you see how the digital development is thundering by? Do you rejoice or shudder when you think about what science has enabled us to do? Are you worried that artificial intelligence might overtake us?
Egnsteatret’s performance THE TIME BEING focuses on the great ethical and existential choices that humanity faces today; choices related to the new opportunities that digital and scientific development makes available to us. Brain implants that are right now being developed will equip us with new skills. Nano robots swimming in our veins will detect diseases in time and eventually help medical science to eradicate them totally. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence puts the human being in a new perspective. If our bodies can be repaired indefinitely and upgraded exactly as we wish, what will we expect of each other as humans? How will our relationships and work-life balance change when life expectancy is doubled?
Surrounded by a subdued light and gentle music, you are led through a sensuous universe of future visions. Together with the performers and the other participants, you move through game-like situations that pose questions and generate choices. What sparks your curiosity? Where does your limit go? When the mind opens to the idea that everything can change and all familiar reference points can be moved nhow will that effect the choices you make every day? These are questions only you can answer yourself.
THE TIME BEING is a human specific performance inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s New York Times bestseller: “Homo Deus — A Brief History of Tomorrow”.
The performance is supported by The Municipality of Vordingborg and Copenhagen Performing Arts Committee (Københavns Scenekunstudvalg)
- Audience number
- Maximum 30
- Duration
- 90 minutes
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ReviewsThere's not enough room in this review to tell about everything I have at heart. But in short, it was really an experience I let myself be seduced by. (...) It is incredibly unique and beautiful. I don't think a single participant went unaffected from here.Sóley Freyja Eiríksdóttir, The fourth wallOn the whole, there is a fine, sensuous tightness about the performance. A kind of Japanese minimalism with soft, white carpets in the dark room and a hush atmosphere of muted or wordless interactions.Monna Dithmer, Politiken
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Audience feedbackAfter our performances we invite the audience to write about their experiences:Examples from The Time Being in 2018:This show will sit in me for a long time. The room we entered, with its low light intensity and touching music, opened up all the little spaces that are hiding in my interior.It was great to see the world anew. Thank you for reminding and showing how we need each other. We won't forget that again right now.Electronic presence! Does it exist? What an amazing total experience. Key questions you raise in a beautiful and vivid way – more of it!!!
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Credits2020 Performeres:
- Elena Copelli, Marc Facchini, Siri Facchini Haff, Marta Proietti Orzella, Karolina Pietrzykowska, Sara Vilardo
- Director
- Nullo Facchini
- Idea and concept
- Egnsteatret
- Scenographer
- Tilde Knudsen
- Music
- Marc Facchini
2019 Performeres- Kaja Mærke Egeberg, Siri Facchini Haff, Tilde Knudsen, Minni Katina Mertens, Karolina Pietrzykowska
- Director
- Nullo Facchini
- Playwright, writer
- Ensemblet
- Musician and performer
- Marc Facchini
- Scenograph
- Tilde Knudsen
- Technician
- Per Aagaard
- Production
- Egnsteatret
2018 Performeres:- Karolina Pietrzykowska, Marc Facchini, Maria Stoyanova, Minni Katina Mertens, Nullo Facchini, Siri Facchini Haff
- Director
- Nullo Facchini
- Playwright, writer
- Ensemblet
- Composer
- Marc Facchini
- Musical organizer
- Marc Facchini
- Scenograph
- Tilde Knudsen
- Scenograph assistent
- Ea Marie Qvortrup
- Technician/executer
- Per Aagaard
- Technician
- Allan Hansen og Joshua Lindemann
- Production leader
- Delia Trice
- Photos
- Per Rasmussen
- Video
- Tine Kortermand
- Graphic design
- Lone Fomsgaard
- PR & marketing
- Helle Bøgelund
- Administration
- Helle Iuel
- Producer
- Maria Westh Hage
- Production
- Egnsteatret
- Organizer
- Egnsteatret og Teaterøen
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Supporters
- Vordingborg municipality
- Copenhagen Performing Arts Committee
