THE EMPLOYEES

BY OLGA RAVN ADAPTATION AND PLAYWRIGHT JOANNA BEDNARCZYK DIRECTION ŁUKASZ TWARKOWSKI

##general.period##:: 22/11 — 24/11/24
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Show completed

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

OPENING NIGHTS
22/11 with Embassa't
DJ Chica Acosta

Attention

Strobe lights, smoke effects and very loud music used in this show.
Buffer plugs shall be provided at the entrance to the room and you can bring yourself ones.

INSIDE THE HALL
Show not numbered. Once inside the hall you can sit or being changing place.

Description

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 from another planet.

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

Łukasz Twarkowski at the Arxiu Lliure
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn review – ‘Am I human?’ by Justine Jordan (The Guardian)