WUNDERBAUM speelt LIVE (online gaat het mis).
Actor group Wunderbaum, together with writer Annelies Verbeke, will investigate pupils' social media use in secondary schools. Reluctantly - because we don't want to appear old - but with the thought that it is high time to make a performance about our screen time. Ever since the iPhone made its massive glorious entry into our country in 2008, we have been 'hooked'. Our behaviour changed and generational gaps revealed themselves.
Run time tba
Genre theatre
Language Dutch
In Gesprek Fri January 26
WUNDERBAUM speelt LIVE (online gaat het mis).
As parents and educators, we are mildly to heavily concerned. We hear stories of children adopting different identities in 20 Whatsapp groups, having a secret second phone, participating in anorexia challenges on the dark web and preferring to celebrate New Year with their friends online in World of Warcraft. Or is this all exaggerated and should we stick to the love-attention-and-trust mantra that is so characteristic of our parent’s generation?
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And what right do we really have when we regularly find ourselves scrolling at a screen ourselves as our child talks to us? Or when we surf on the web from the news to Funda late at night between series?
WUNDERBAUM speelt LIVE (online gaat het mis) is a performance that does not shy away from one of the most pressing questions of this century: How much of our time do we want to spend online?
CREDITS
from and with Walter Bart, Wine Dierickx, Matijs Jansen, Maartje Remmers and Marleen Scholten
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text Annelies Verbeke
image Jan Dirk van der Burg
