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translation by Dorota Sajewska

costumes: Magdalena Maciejewska
light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
music: Wojciech Kosma

cast: Małgorzata Klara, Katarzyna Kurylońska, Aleksandra Popławska, Magdalena Popławska, Piotr Ligienza, Krzysztof Zarzecki, Michał Żurawski

Electronic City at first glance seems to be a love story of the beginning of the twenty first century. Tom and Joy are ideal employees of international corporations. They both go on business trips and their daily schedules are accordingly planned: today in Frankfurt, tomorrow night in Hong Kong, then in Singapore and Amsterdam. They meet each other accidentally on the airport while fighting for the last seat on the plane about to take off.
But there's more to Electronic City than only a modern love tale. The story undergoes constant and conscious theatricalization, it is again and again interrupted by the director, who asks the characters - actors to take individual scenes out of context and replay them. The behavior of the characters also undergoes transformations, their language begins to remind a computer-edited new language. The image of a contemporary man caught in the modern civilization trap emerges from overlapped events and situations of constantly impaired reality.
Falk Richter was born in 1969 in Hamburg, where he studied directing at the local university. His graduation performance of Silicon in 1996 has caught the attention of the critics. He has directed plays by Brecht and Goethe in Atlanta, by Sophocles in Linz, Transpotting by Welsh in Mainz, dramas by Ravenhill and Norén in Zurich, Somewhere far away by Churchill and Kane's 4.48 Psychosis in Schaubűhne in Berlin. He made his writing debut in 1996. His most important dramas are: Cult, Gott ist ein DJ, Nothing hurts and Peace, the latter directed in 2000 for Schaubűhne.

premiered: 30 November 2003
approximate running time: 1 hour 20 min. (no intermission)

performance presented in FOCUS building, 26 Armii Ludowej Av.