A cyberformance adaptation of Ionesco’s homonymous play
- Upstage v3, 9 July 2020, 9am UK time (video / text log)
- Upstage v3, 9 July 2020, 9pm UK time (text log)
- Network Music Festival, 15 July 2020, 11am (video / text log / public chat)
In 1970, absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco wrote Jeux de Massacre (known in English as The Killing Game or Here Comes a Chopper) – a dark comedy in which the plague ravages a small town and everyone dies. As a new pandemic overwhelms the globe and people rush to isolation and internet communication, it seems appropriate and timely to translate this work from the stage to cyberspace. Christina Papagiannouli (UK/Greece) has teamed up with Clara Gomes (Portugal), Helen Varley Jamieson (Germany/Aotearoa NZ), Miljana Perić (Serbia) and Vicki Smith (Aotearoa NZ) to produce Jeux de Massacre in UpStage and adapt it to current crises.
Links:
The Etheatre Project 