Meinhardt&Krauss / Replica A / Puppet theater dance robotics
Artificial intelligence: it can calculate, write and program. Okay. It can paint pictures, compose music and tell jokes. Yes, yes, but... It can answer questions, give useful tips, has endless time for us and knows more than any human. But... can we be sure that this will always be the case? Maybe at some point she'll have had enough of us. After all, isn't she only human?
"Replica A" confronts its hero with various images, replicas of himself. Disturbed and fascinated at the same time, he dares to take a look behind the mirror, at the back of himself, to learn to be creeped out by the sight of his shadow, his other self, his dark twin.
MEINHARDT & KRAUSS has been made up of the puppeteer/director Iris Meinhardt, the director/video artist Michael Krauss and the composer/musician Thorsten Meinhardt since 2003. The Stuttgart-based company's plays thrive on the intensive exchange between puppet theater, film, new media and contemporary music. They skillfully merge high-tech and poetry, virtuality and the body to create their own theatrical language, which invites us to perceive the seemingly unreal with a vital sense of the surreal.
Play/ Dance: Ludger Lamers | Video Design: Lieve Vanderschaeve | Music/ Sounds: Thorsten Meinhardt | Robotics Conception / Robotics Construction: Nils Bennett, Michael Krauss | Robotics Programming: Michael Krauss | Silicone Molding/ Silicone Painting: Jörg Steegmüller/Steegmüller Skulpturen | Costume: Katharina Ruprecht | Scenography: Iris Meinhardt / Michael Krauss | Light/Technology: Alexander Schmidt | Director: Iris Meinhardt
Supported by concept funding from Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. (LaFT BW), concept funding from Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., City of Stuttgart
Co-production with the FITZ
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