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machina eX

Life Goes On

Part of “On and On and On and On. A retrospective for the 15th anniversary of machina eX”

  • Game
  • Online
  • Performance
German /  Approx. 120 mins.

Once known throughout the entire German Democratic Republic for its delicious chocolate balls, today the small city of Prückwitz consists solely of closed factory buildings and a timid hope for tourism. A dedicated mayor and a US-American investor could help the city to flourish economically if it weren’t for this one parcel of land: Treuhand sold it to a fortune hunter who has now disappeared during the German Reunification and now it is thwarting the dream of an industrial park. Prückwitz’s dream of revival is threatened once more with collapse due to the legacy of decisions made a long, long time ago.
Prückwitz does not exist, but if Prückwitz ever had existed, it would look just like this. To mark its 15th anniversary, the game theatre collective machina eX is returning to the fictional location of the very real events with the multimedia board game ‘Life Goes On’ (premiered in 2022) to unearth the legacy that the past has left behind in the present.

“Life Goes On” takes the audience on an excursion into the German-German past without having to leave the theatre table. With city maps, smartphones, headphones and documents, the players create their own Prückwitz and experience a production that installs a game night in the performance space and a performance space in the game night.

In addition to the performances at HAU3, the online version “Life Goes On // At Home” can be played free of charge on hau4.de from 25 June to 27 July.
 

Cast

Concept: machina eX / Performance (audio): Anne Eigner, Godehard Giese, Sina Kießling, Thomas Mielmann, Laura Naumann, David Simon, Stephan Stock, Leon Ullrich / Text: Clara Ehrenwerth / Interaction Design & Programming: Lasse Marburg, Benedikt Kaffai / Collaboration programming: Philip Steimel / Dramaturgy: Lena Vöcklinghaus / Sound Design: Matthias Millhoff / Collaboration game design: Anton Rose / Scenography: För Künkel, Mirjam Hildbrand / Interface & UX Design: Elisa Haubert / Graphic design: Ines Strzedulla / Production management: Sina Kießling

Dates

Past
To the event on HAU4

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Credits

Production: machina eX. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Gefördert durch: Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR.

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