MUNCITOR: ALL WORKERS GO TO HEAVEN
Presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute in association with Theatre Royal Stratford East
MUNCITOR: ALL WORKERS GO TO HEAVEN
7-11 Jul 2012
muncitor:
All Workers Go To Heaven
You have a 67% chance to have cried last week.
You have a 40% chance to have laughed last week.
You have a 31% chance to be an immigrant.
You have a 8.2% chance to be unemployed.
You have a 13% chance to be an atheist.
You have a 7% chance to have protested last year.
You have a 51% chances to be a woman.
You have a 95% chance to have been bullied in your lifetime.
You have a 64% chance to have considered homosexuality.
You have a 1% chance to have you identity stolen.
You have 0 chance to go to heaven.
Prove them wrong
This exciting participatory theatre experience has been developed by Ioana Pãun during her 2012 residency at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Pãun is a theatre director whose cutting-edge work has been showcased as part of international festivals across Europe.
In this latest piece Ioana Pãun explores ideas about domination and the abuse of power in a hybrid performance which is part live art and part social experiment.
Once people are put in an environment in unequal positions will they work to maintain inequality or against it? Does hierarchy cause anxiety? How much inequality will they take?
Ioana Păun
Muncitor: All Workers Go To Heaven takes place in a see-through factory, where you will have the chance to work, earn, sweat, resign, succeed, conform or strike, all in the name of live art.
Funded in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute
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Some teaser audio from the show
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Zero Decibels
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Zero Decibels
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X-Street
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Domestic
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Get Lost Trailer
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Remotes
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Get Lost
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Connection Failed Trailer
Creative Team
Director Ioana Pãun
Set Maria Pitea
Sound Giorgio Cadamuro
Devised in collaboration with Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, Simina Cojocaru, Windson Liong, Neusha Milanian and Fiona Whitelaw
Biographies
Ioana Păun
Ioana Păun (b. 1984) is a theatre director and performer, member of the réaltympanica collective and tangaProject theatre group.
She graduated from National Theatre University in Bucharest and Goldsmiths College in London.
Ioana developed work around new drama, cutting edge performance and social art.
Her latest work revolves around public space, social dynamics, mass media and participation, represented through everyday culture resources: TV for Dummies (National Theatre in Iasi), Zero Decibels (Bucharest - Foarte Mic Theatre), trenSformers (interventions in trains, documenting regional perceptions).
As part of réaltympanica, Ioana works in site specific contexts, generating close to life experiences for the audience through cinematic dramaturgy and pervasive media.
This summer Ioana will work with unemployed youth in Transilvania using smartphone apps and theatre, as part of her PhD research on Telecommunication and Vulnerability.
She facilitated workshops at the National Theatre University, Prague Quadrennial and as part of Live Art Development Agency, focusing on the use of urban sound streaming in live art.
She was awarded with a series of grants and residencies to pursue her artistic explorations from ICR London, Dinu Patriciu Foundation, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Romanian Ministry of Culture, Schaubuehne Theatre in Berlin, UKYA, Medeea Electronique or Ratiu Foundation.
Her work was showcased as part of international festivals like Romanian International Theatre Festival, Stockholm Fringe, London Festival of Architecture, Park in Progress in Paris, UKYA, Biennial for Young Artists in Europe and the Mediteranean, FIND, National Playwriting Festival in Timisoara.
Ioana is currently exploring issues of spectatorship and audience immersion through surveillance means and telecommunication.
In Muncitor: All Workers Go To Heaven Ioana is tackling the meaning of domination and power abuse in a hybrid performance that mixes live art and sociological experiment.
Funded in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute
Tickets
Main: £15 (concessions £12)
Extra: £7 (these seats are further back)
Tickets are limited - this show takes place in our studio format
Times
All shows at 8pm
Access
There will be two wheelchair spaces per performance.
Additional Information
This is a participatory theatre experience – please come with an open mind!
Sensible footwear is advised.
Suitable for age 16 years +
Muncitor: All Workers Go To Heaven
ALL WORKERS GO TO HEAVEN
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