U ARE THE UNIVERSE

After receiving the bad news Andrukha, as the AI-powered machine affectionately calls its rather modest master, oscillates between depression and finally-I'm-the-most-powerful-person-in-the-world fantasies. And then a message comes: it would appear that there is at least one other survivor, Catherine from Paris. Via the on-board radio, they talk about God, the world and his vinyl collection. A space odyssey set in the dystopian-poetic tradition of the likes of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and SILENT RUNNING. A one-man play about who we presume to be the last person, one who has little left to choose from beyond love if he wants to survive a little longer, in a situation in which survival is no longer at stake. Plenty of charm, an imaginative set design and tremendously interpersonal, even if the counterpart is sometimes a computer and proves, with its vapid words, so annoying that you the viewer want to pull the plug on them. Loneliness and vastness, both the approaching end and one last love in sight, all with a slightly ironic touch - and an emotional finale for which you should have plenty of tissues ready.

Text: Bernd Buder

07.11.2024 | 21:30 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)

09.11.2024 | 10:00 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (original version with English and German subtitles)