Map to Utopia, Archive

interactive digital performance

Co-production of fringe ensemble, Bonn, and Platform Tiyatro, Istanbul.

Concept and artistic direction Ceren Ercan, Frank Heuel, Mark Levitas, Annika Ley, Fehime Seven
Direction Frank Heuel
Virtual design, stage and costumes Annika Ley
Game development and design Fehime Seven
Dramaturgy, text Ceren Ercan
Sound design Ömer Sarıgedik
Internship Direction Lutz Ackermann, Roman Höffken
Internship Stage Ruth Baltes
Technical Consulting Patrick Kirsch
Technical Assistance Lutz Ackermann, Ruth Baltes, Roman Höffken
Production Management Jennifer Merten
Management Svenja Pauka
Press and Public Relations Claudia Grönemeyer, Eugenia Fabrizi

With Philine Bührer, David Fischer, Georg Lennarz, Laila Nielsen, Philip Schlomm
English version with Gizem Erdem, David Fischer, Georg Lennarz, Laila Nielsen, Okan Urun

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Cities should open up opportunities, connect people to new people,
free us from the narrow confines of tradition – in a word,
the city should deepen experience.
Richard Sennett

The future of our planet will be decided in the cities. How does the coexistence of cultures work? What form of democracy enables the participation of many and how does exchange between groups occur? While dealing with these questions, the team of the fringe ensemble and the Istanbul-based Platform Tiyatro landed again and again on the topic of how society and the individual deal with barriers. What do they mean for life in the city, how do they influence the inner structure, and how can we succeed in dismantling them, at least partially?

Using the cosmopolitan metropolis of Istanbul as an example, the team developed a fictitious cityscape with four districts and invites visitors to get to know them through the stories of fictitious biographies of people living there.

The performance is interactive! Corona-conditioned we invite you to the digital version in Zoom – guided by five performers with you as participants. They will take the perspective of residents or urban developers, meet and talk to each other. We have already tested this purely digital version of the piece very successfully at an international festival in Istanbul. A review there said (mimesis.org): Thanks to “Map To Utopia” we realize once again how closely daily life on the street and in the theater are connected, and that the theater is an important public space where different ideas and discussions about daily life emerge. …undoubtedly the most experimental play of the İKSV Theatre Festival.

“Map to Utopia” makes borders permeable: between districts and between people at screens here and there while it opens the discussion for a “city of the future”.

“What remains is the amazing feeling of having stepped outside the door again and having looked a bit beyond one’s own nose.” (General-Anzeiger Bonn)

Please read through this technical information:

Your smartphone should either be an Android with at least operating system 4.1 or higher or an iPhone with at least operating system iOS 11. Please also remember that you still have free data capacity on your smartphone.

To participate in Zoom, you need another terminal device – computer or tablet.

Please keep in mind that only one person can participate in front of a screen at a time.

Click on this image to go to the review of the online performance on January 15, 2021 by Dorothea Marcus for Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Photos: Tanja Evers

At 25. and November 26, 2020, we were guests at the İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali with an online-only version.

Concept and artistic direction Ceren Ercan, Frank Heuel, Mark Levitas, Annika Ley, Fehime Seven
Dramaturgy and text: Ceren Ercan
Director Frank Heuel
Virtual design, stage and costumes Annika Ley
Game development and design Fehime Seven
Sound design Ömer Sarıgedik
With Gizem Erdem, Ersin Umut Güler, Okan Ürün, Elif Ürse, Alican Yücesoy
Production Mark Levitas
Production Assistant Halil Ünsal
Documentation Zeynep Dilan Süren
Technical Assistance Buğra Erkenci, Efe Çetin, Selen Üçüncüoğlu, Sıla Demiral

 

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The first phase of the project took place Corona conditional as online testing in May 2020.

Concept and artistic direction Ceren Ercan, Frank Heuel, Mark Levitas, Annika Ley, Fehime Seven
Direction Frank Heuel
Virtual design Annika Ley
Game development and design Fehime Seven
Dramaturgy, text Ceren Ercan
Translation Ari Büyüktaş
Sound design Ömer Sarıgedik
Assistance Jennifer Merten
Management Svenja Pauka
Press and Public Relations Claudia Grönemeyer

With Deniz Celiloğlu, David Fischer, Laila Nielsen, Elif Ürse, Okan Urun
Production Mark Levitas
Academic Advisors Miguel Sicart, Güven Çatak
Assistant Play Development Yusuf Isik
Assistant Play Design Maria Muszynska, Henri Knutsen