Das Knistern der Pixel

In the organizer's words:

Drama

Emre Akal's theater texts for the digital age. Reading and discussion with the new in-house author.

The pixels crackle at the edges of digital and analog worlds: This is where avatars and hamsters, digital natives and melancholics, the longing and the excluded meet. Emre Akal , in-house author of Spielzeit 2025.26, feeds his characters from virtual worlds opened up by the internet in conjunction with chats, gaming and artificial intelligence, or lets them come into contact with them for the first time. They are exposed to each other - their naivety, their desire, their fear of the future or their quirky humor. When does virtuality offer them comfort? What makes them seek love in a machine? And when is the point reached at which an artificial intelligence also has a right to emancipation, to its own identity? To kick off the in-house playwright year with Emre Akal, we will be reading excerpts from his plays - including a preview of his commissioned work for the Nationaltheater Mannheim, "It says it loves us" which will premiere at Studio Werkhaus in January. We look forward to discussing this with Emre Akal and you. With: Emre Akal, Maria Helena Bretschneider, Elodie Toschek, Boris Koneczny, Sarah Zastrau Moderation: Olivia Ebert Emre Akal's residency as in-house author in the 2025.26 season is made possible by the Friends and Sponsors of the Nationaltheater Mannheim e.V. This content has been machine translated.