AARHUS THEATER, 2010

Somewhere in Europe a wall fell. Somewhere in the world we are raising a new one

A female taxi driver makes her vehicle available for a spin in the carousel of democracy. Invisible asylum seekers, disillusioned politicians and an artist morbidly obsessed with the ordinary take a back seat as the tour goes to the world’s hotspots – now staged as interactive amusement parks for privileged Westerners.

How do you tell the story of the future? And what will be the result when four actors stick the thermometer up in the global arsehole? Man is at the center of a portrait of the sharp contrasts that our society balances on the edge of. The focus is on human rights, inequality, indifference and the ability of Western society to ignore or treat global injustice as a problem we don’t have to deal with. The History of the Future is not a study in political correctness, rather a well-placed roundhouse kick to the face of those who allow themselves to think they know the answer to this world’s problems.

CREDITS/

Performers: METTE DØSSING // ENE ØSTER BENDTSEN // ANDREAS JEBRO // HENRIK BIRCH

Text: Christian Lollike

Directing: Tue Biering

Set design: Nicolaj Spangaa

Light design: Sune

Sound design: Andreas Carlsen

Graphic design: Jørn Moesgård as

NOMINATION/

Best director 2010

Produced by Aarhus Theatre