Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug/Stefan Kaegi)
Best Before
UK premiere
Last year Rimini Protokoll made its UK debut at Brighton Festival with the premiere of Breaking News. Now, the groundbreaking German collective presents its latest slice of 'reality theatre'.
Best Before pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and plugs it into an intimate theatre setting. A simulated city evolves on a giant screen as each of 200 spectators adds their personal touch, game controller in hand. At first you are an anonymous avatar but then you take on human dimensions as audience members clash, collaborate and negotiate the forces that define reality in the third millennium.
A gamer's dream, this thrillingly inventive production asks you to help shape the future ... before it's too late!
Rimini Protokoll has blurred the line between reality and fiction in over 20 immersive theatre experiences, putting 'experts in daily life' at the heart of its bold new vision.
'Rimini Protokollbrings real life to the stage in a way that no other theatre form has been able to.'
Frankfurter Rundschau
Commissioned by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Co-Produced by Goethe-Institut, Brighton Festival, Hebbel - Theater Berlin GmbH, Luminato - Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Rimini Apparat, The Cultch, La Bâtie Festival de Genève.
Supported by Arts Partners in Creative Development and the Federal Republic of Germany
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