[Or Press Escape]
Monologue / digital dialogue
Concept, text and play: Edit Kaldor
Performed with: Cecilia Vallejos
Made in collaboration with Nicola Unger, Zsolt Mesterhazy, Catherine Henegan
Software: Marc Boon
When the first team of morons started approaching rhythmically from the sidelines, I clicked Retry. They marched on. Cancel didnt work either.As a last resort, there was still OK. I hesitated.
Select all. Cut.
[Or Press Escape] is a solo piece for theatre in which the narrative is constructed in the forms that everyday computer-use offers, and displayed on a large projection of the computer screen.
A woman is sitting behind her computer in a large city somewhere in Western Europe. She is clearly a stranger in her new environment, isolated and invisible. Indications of her past life pop up in e-mails, pictures on her desktop, images of the description of a dream, and suggest a contrast to the vacuum of her here and now.
Her thoughts are dominated by angst and the desire to break out of her isolation. Gradually a paranoid story, full of subtle irony, emerges about what can happen when one loses touch and the mind goes on a rampage.
[Or Press Escape], is a daring performance, based on a paradoxical presence on scene. In the silence of the bluish half-light, we sense a very strong artistic personality. It is an astounding confrontation with ones own isolation. Liberation
Produced by Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam
Co-produced by Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
Developed in collaboration with DasArts, Amsterdam and wp Zimmer, Antwerp