Meinhardt & Krauss cinematic theatre (DE)

This content has been machine translated: In a world of genetic engineering, AI and robotics, the topic of doppelgangers is not far away. Some contemporaries are already known to be on the move in duplicate. Ideas collide: On the one hand, the battle for uniqueness is raging, but at the same time there is the dream of making the world a multiplied delight. In “Replik_A”, a person moves into an eerie valley populated by dolls, avatars and robotic humanoids, all doppelgangers of the courageous protagonist. Disturbed and fascinated at the same time, he dares to take a look behind the mirror, at the back of himself, in order to learn to fear the sight of his shadow, his other self, his dark twin. The dancer Ludger Lamers encounters himself not only in an android, but also in the movements of a curtain, in a three-dimensional computer graphic or a jester figure consisting only of a head and a stick.

Meinhardt & Krauss consist of puppeteer/director Iris Meinhardt, director/video artist Michael Krauss and composer/musician Thorsten Meinhardt since 2003. The Stuttgart-based company’s plays thrive on the intensive exchange between puppet theatre, film, new media and contemporary music. They skillfully merge high-tech and poetry, virtuality and the body to create their own theatrical language that invites us to perceive the seemingly unreal with a vital sense of the surreal.