Festival CLASHING CLASSIC - TIRESIAS NEVER MADE IT TO NEW YORK

In the organizer's words:

The play deals with themes such as identity, the search for meaning and the quest for a better life in an absurd world in a profound and humorous way. Inspired by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", the performance uses modern streaming technology to connect three stages in Berlin, Avignon and Milan.

The action takes place in an imaginary theater that serves as an emergency shelter. Teiresias, a mythological figure, lives and works there as a security guard due to the difficult housing situation in Berlin. With the help of ChatGPT, he plans a trip to New York, but soon realizes that he could get into a lot of trouble there... The use of holograms reflects the blurring of the boundaries between reality and fake. Parallel stories of Minerva and Tom in Avignon and of an actress and her assistant in Milan shed light on the tensions between art and life.