MonsterMenschMaschine

From https://theater-im-delphi.de/en/events/

*A search for yesterday’s fictions & today’s possibilities – a free interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

We have arrived in high-tech medicine. Organ transplants are daily business. Exoskeletons make paralyzed bodies move again. Nanotechnology fights cancer. Artificial reproduction is possible. Euthanasia too. Google is looking for the age gene. And how will we define life in the future? Who are we? What is human?

MonsterMenschMaschine is a site-specific, interdisciplinary performance on the cover of Mary Shelley’s visionary novel. Theater im Delphi creates the perfect setting for this with its romantic gothic flair. Artists from different disciplines and experts from film history, medicine, microbiology and philosophy give expression to their ideas of the feasibility of human beings. Questions about ethics and moral concepts of the existential question are addressed by the ensemble with dance, theater, music, B-movie horror, retro-horror and knowledge transfer, which has come together for this performative tour of science and fiction.

Duration: 85 min. including 12 minutes of silent film from 1910, directed by J. Searle Dawley*