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August
2011
"Black Box - How to play Hamlet with eight remote controlled robots",
Presentation
The Robots
are back!
Between Augst 1st and 3rd Sonja
Prlic, Karl Zechenter and Robert Presslaber and 3 of the main robots of
the award-winning object theatre piece "Black Box" give an insight
into the secrets of working with the robots in form of a lecture.
Belgrad, BELEF Festival
August 1st - August 3rd 2011
21:00
Plateau of faculty of philosophy/ Plato kog Filozofskog fakulteta
Link: http://www.belef.org/webtv/rur.htm
October
2009
Black Box at the European
Capital of Culture Linz 2009.
Black Box,
object
theatre for 8 remote-controlled robots,
will be shown at the "Doppelgänger"-Festival of the European
Capital of Culture Linz 2009
13th/14th of Oktober 09: Studio der Hafenhalle Linz09
Black
Box
Object theatre for 8 remote-controlled robots.
A school class of
low-tech robots stages Hamlet and inevitably stumbles upon the question
“to be, or not to be”.
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite
in faculties!" bleeps a small robot. Everything is set for tonight's
grand theatre show: sockets, plugs, cables, well oiled hinges …
eight small robots stage Hamlet as their annual end-of-term play. While
still at the beginning of their careers, they are not much more than mobile
loudspeakers – yet they all long for the alluring world of the senses:
for their graduation, they want to receive infra-red beams, laser scanners
and smoke detectors as gifts.
Despite his desperate struggles, Stabilomat, determined to play Hamlet,
gets tangled up in the text, and the whole class doggedly fights their
way through the twist and turns of human love and error until they unexpectedly
end up confronting their own “to be, or not to be – that is
the question.”
Black Box is abundantly funny, a humorous take on the wish for immortality
and the prospect of overcoming petty human limitations. Science fiction
brought to the theatre stage.
