Germany Year 2071

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

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With its unmistakable blend of delight in theatrical play, conceptual rigor and skillful handling of modernist artistic strategies, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma has consistently searched for new opportunities to form a community with its audiences. After many years of successful touring to theater festivals around the world, several prizes and whole load of praise, Kelly Copper and Pavel Liska are finally coming to Cologne to try out even more radical forms of directly engaging the audience. Unlike many other so-called participatory projects – in which most of the people ultimately still spend most of the time sitting in the dark – the camera now provides them with the perfect tool to genuinely invite the audience to participate.
Last year, the New York-based company filmed their own version of the ‘Nibelungen saga’ with amateur performers in a series of villages in the Odenwald, digging down deep into the world of German history and sagas. Now, as part of the Impulse Theater Festival 2016, they turn their attention to an uncertain German future, a future which is also still haunted by the past. ‘Germany Year 2071’ presents a country on the verge of economic and social collapse, in which revolutions come and go like summer storms, in which aliens are first welcomed and then processed for meat production, children are raised in the Greek colonies until they are fit for work and emotions replaced by emojis. But Dorothy and Joseph – heroes of the “Detroit Miracle”, which transformed the decline of the run-down motor city into a success story – are close to getting to the bottom of all this misfortune…
Against the backdrop of Cologne’s modernist architecture and the vast building site of Berlin, Nature Theater of Oklahoma will make a retro science fiction film together with people from both cities about an imaginary city reflecting the West Germany of the 1950s and 1960s: a new, old, utopian, dystopian, nostalgic, terrifying city, an Alphaville of the 21st century. Everyone involved will work together to create an imaginary Germany of a kind we do not what to think about.

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