How do you tell the difference between a dead fly and a live one? What does a living entity have that a dead one does not have? Is it tangible nature that differentiates the two, or is it a condition? And why is the condition of the dead fly irreversible? Why is it not possible to bring back what has been left behind: life? Director and author, Lukas Bangerter transforms the stage into a Petri dish and the current status of robotics and biotechnology into a substance for dreamlike theatre images on the border between subject and object. Bangerter‘s laboratory assistants hope to achieve immortality whereby they overlook the fact that they make themselves superfluous. Shocked, they realise that they are inferior to the devices they have created and that they must appear as faulty designs when seen from the machines‘ perspective. 

WITH Jesko Stubbe, Jorgos Margaritis, Andreas Spaniol, Jan Ratschko, Junior Assis Noguiera, Martin Wigger DIRECTION Lukas Bangerter TEXT Lukas Bangerter DRAMATURGY Sarah Ross MUSIC Jan Ratschko, Martin Wigger SCENOGRAPHY Lukas Bangerter LIGHT DESIGN Patrik Rimann SPECIAL EFFECTS Walter Kenneth COSTUMES Petra Kenneth ASSISTANCE Tobias SET BUILDING Kurt Brun, Silvano Speranza Steiner PHOTO Dominique Meienberg PREMIERE Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, 06/2008 Zürich PRODUCTION Kathrin Spaniol, Walter Delazer COPRODUCTION Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich SUPPORT Stadt Zürich Kultur; Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich INTERNET www.plasmaplasma.ch

Plasma
Plasma research the limits between theatre, music and fine art, and create performances that are multilayered, meditative and yet are always clear and reduced in means. A focal point of Plasma’s work is the attempt to liberate language from its sole task of transporting information and to understand it as an acoustic phenomenon.