.jpg)
Binge Culture presents the international premiere of Berlin-based game theatre collective machina eX’s deftly-designed DISASTER. An exclusive immersive experience for up to 12 people at a time.
You are invited to explore interactive spaces, solve puzzles, and navigate your way through a story together. But this time something is amiss. The game is broken. The game is unfinished. The game’s designer is desperate. This was supposed to be her big break: Immersive, participatory, narrative, subversive— a meta monstrosity!
But however you look at it, the game is a disaster.
In DISASTER, go behind the scenes in the creation of a large-scale game and high-stakes story that questions how we deal with systems of control.
Direction by Joel Baxendale, dramaturgy by Ralph Upton, technical and sound by Oliver Devlin, performed by Karin McCracken and Arlo Gibson, production design by Meg Rollandi, lighting design by Tom Smith, design assistance Lucas Neal, programming assistance by Digl Dixon, production management by Sharon Wang, produced by Eleanor Strathern. Made possible with the support of Creative New Zealand, the Goethe-Institut and the International Coproduction Fund.
Original concept and game design by Clara Ehrenwerth (Text), Lasse Marburg (Programming), Anan Fries (Set Design), Yves Regenass (Dramaturgy), Malu Peeters (Sound Design), Sebastian Arnd (Electronics), Leo G. Alonso (Lighting), Sina Kießling (Production management) and Eva Budniewski (Production Assistance). Co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf and ROXY Birsfelden. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe, Dance & Theater Technical Committee BS/BL.
This production is part of an international show exchange project between Binge Culture and game-theatre collective machina eX (Germany); both an artistic exchange and alternative to touring - at the end of which two international productions will be presented in Aotearoa and Germany.
Disaster was originally produced in 2018 by machina eX. The Wellington season of Disaster was presented in October 2024 at the Hannah Playhouse.
You and A.I. (created by Binge Culture) will be presented by machina eX in May 2025 at FFT Düsseldorf
An exclusive immersive experience for up to 12 people at a time.
Duration: 60 mins
.JPG)
