The Employees

THE EMPLOYEES

BY OLGA RAVN ADAPTATION AND PLAYWRIGHT JOANNA BEDNARCZYK DIRECTION ŁUKASZ TWARKOWSKI

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22/11 — 24/11/24
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Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Timetable

Friday and Saturday at 19.00 p.m.
Sunday at 18.00 p.m.

Running time

2 h 30’

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver

Language

in Polish over-titled in Catalan and English

Price

€12 - €32

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

BABYSITTING SERVICE
with Més que cures
On Saturday and Sunday
from 30' before the performance
Children from 3 to 12 years
Mandatory reservation

Attention

Strobe lights, smoke effects and very loud music used in this show.

Łukasz Twarkowski, one of the most innovative artists on the Polish scene, adapts this science fiction novel by Danish writer Olga Ravn. A multisensory immersion into what it means to be human in the AI era.

Novel finalist of the International Booker Prize 2021.

In the twenty-second century, humans and humanoids work together in a spaceship millions of kilometres from Earth. However, their relationships will change when they enter into contact with certain objects.

The play explores the nature of human consciousness as reflected in its counterpart, enhancing the feeling of the uncanny valley – this particular strangeness we experience when faced with the Other, yet similar to the human. What is the nature of emotion? Can an algorithm experience subjective states, and feel? Is an artificially created sense of “I” a potential threat to the human species? Can there be a ghost in the shell? Using film image, combining a performative installation with theatrical action, and building tension between what is real and what is fantastical, it presents known topoi from great works of science-fiction work not through intellectual discourse, but by immersion in an intense, multi-sensorial experience.
— Studio Teatrgaleria

CAST

Dominika Biernat

Daniel Dobosz

Maja Pankiewicz

Sonia Roszczuk

Miron Smagała

Paweł Smagała

Rob Wasiewicz

VOICE

Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik

TRANSLATION FROM DANISH

Bogusława Sochańska

SETTING

Fabien Lédé

COSTUMES

Svenja Gassen

LIGHTING

Bartosz Nalazek

VIDEO

Jakub Lech

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Lubomir Grzelak

director assistant

Adam Zduńczyk

movement advisor

Rob Wasiewicz

concept advisor

Szymon Adamczak

International collaboration

Anna Lewanowicz

Stage manager

Zuzanna Prusińska

Camera operators

Iwo Jabłoński, Gloria Grunig

Lighting operator

Jan Zajączkowski

Sound Operators

Damian Kruszewski, Kacper Słowik Dabravolskiy

Video Operators

Adrien Cognac, Adam Kuznowicz/Paweł Banaszczyk

management

Monika Balińska

management assistant

Aleksandra Urban

set up made by

Piotr Szczygielski

Model and Objects

Katarzyna Rytka

Costumes made by

Aleksandra Andrychowicz

and the teams of

Teatre Lliure

PRODUCTION

Studio Teatrgaleria

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