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Recording: 2010-01-14 , Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Video © Walter Bickmann)

Constanza Macras | DorkyPark

Megalopolis

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

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MEGALOPOLIS is not a specific, but a metaphorical place. The scene is the city under the impact of globalism. The city is characterized by the illegibility of today’s megacities, born into chaos. Its features are unbridled growth, decay and endless disbandment. The city’s density and tightness dissolve the borderline between private and public sphere, it almost disappears. At the same time, this boundlessness forces us to perceive the city as collage which consists of countless biographical scraps. The fight of two street vendors for the best spot is an existential confrontation today – but will be forgotten tomorrow. Megacities are a paradigm for spaces in which people live without knowing each other. The ever present surveillance system not only constantly creates supervised beings; it also produces a new form of self-perception. Thus, a person’s body transforms into an expressive device that creates as well as destroys systems and rules. Which correlations are still valid here? Will the urban development follow principles unknown to us? Is the discernable decay of social relations a cause or an effect of our cities‘ apparent deterioration? MEGALOPOLIS is a promise and a curse. MEGALOPOLIS is a beaming city. MEGALOPOLIS is an uncontrollable construct, constantly in motion.

Cast & Credits

Direction and Choreography: Constanza Macras
Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert
Performers: Fernanda Farah, Anouk Froidevaux, Hyoung-Min Kim, Denis Kuhnert, Johanna Lemke, Ronni Maciel, Ana Mondini, Franz Rogowski, Miki Shoji, Damir Zisko
Stage Manager: Alissa Kolbusch
Costume Design: Gilvan Coelho de Oliveira, Sophie du Vinage, Julia Weis
Sound/ Video Operator: Stephan Wöhrmann
Lightning Design: Sergio de Carvalho Pessanha
Videographers: Constanza Macras, Maria Onis, Tobias Götz
Music: Santiago Blaum, Kristina Lösche-Löwensen, Almut Lustig
Assistant Direction: Max Luz
Assistant Stage: Sophie du Vinage, Anja Steglich
A production by Constanza Macras | DorkyPark and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, in co-production with HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste and MESS Sarajevo.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten.

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

Kurfürstendamm 153
10709 Berlin

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