Image: Reservix

Saturday, 9/12/2026
at 8:00 PM



The following text was automatically translated.
Show original Show translation


Future: Humanity now lives underground in a complex of uniform single-person living cells and follows a strictly regulated daily routine. The entire life is regulated and controlled by an omniscient machine that guides the entire civilization. Physical needs and social interaction are reduced to the bare minimum or abolished altogether. Any communication between individuals occurs via audio-video transmission, and every action and deed of a person is registered, documented, and commented on by the machine. The system is perfect!

In the midst of this glassy civilization lives the music researcher Vashti, content with her life and thoroughly convinced of the modernity and functionality of the system – until she receives a call from her son Kuno, with alarming news: He wants to forbiddenly travel to the surface of the Earth!

When Vashti finally meets Kuno, he has long put his plan into action – with devastating consequences: His discovery on the surface threatens the system, triggering a chain reaction of events and ultimately severe malfunctions of the life-sustaining machine...

The system collapses, the machine stands still. Humanity is annihilated. Only Kuno's discovery at the surface still holds a glimmer of hope for a restart – without the machine…

A dystopian play based on a short story by E.M. Forster from 1909. Forster's fascinating technical vision of the future and his grim prognosis regarding social development contain a striking relevance…

Adaptation: Hugh G. Lorey
Direction: Anna-Sophie Sattler
Featuring: Anja Becker, Marcel Zauner-Wieczorek, Eric Lenke, Judith Nitzschner, Jutta Hoffmann, Tim Rost, Julia Seßar and others.
Music: Tommy Steinkopff (Didgeridoo), Anna-Sophie Sattler (Handpan)
Stage: Karl Konrad Koenigs
Equipment: noctenytor
Photography: Andreas Kemler

Event data provided by: Reservix

That might also be interesting

Image: Reservix
Die Maschine steht still - von E. M. Forster
Image: Reservix
Die Maschine steht still - von E. M. Forster
Image: Reservix
Die Maschine steht still - von E. M. Forster
Image: Reservix
Die Maschine steht still - von E. M. Forster
Image: Reservix
Die Maschine steht still - von E. M. Forster