On stage is a small sound booth; inside it sits a woman, alone. She is a voice-over artist.  Off stage, in a space never seen but only heard, two disembodied voices ask her to conjure different voices for commercials, self-help audiobooks, meditation tapes, computer games, robo-calls …. anything and everything.

Is she the powerful protagonist in her own narrative, literally building her own reality – and ours too – or is her voice being used to construct something more complicated? It’s capitalism’s audio debris, a vocal soup that, in a post-apocalyptic world, will continue to be heard for as long as there is electricity.

The Talent is a show about the voice and human presence in the 21st Century. Where does the voice live? How will her voice live on, outside her body, if it can take on a life of its own? The Talent asks what kind of ghosts will haunt us when we’re gone, and what the legacy of the human voice might be in a non-human future.

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Fr. 9. Mai, 20:30 Uhr Tickets

There will be an artist talk following the show

Text
Gemma Paintin, Deborah Pearson, James Stenhouse

Direction
Deborah Pearson, James Stenhouse

Performer
Gemma Paintin

Off-Stage Voices
Deborah Pearson, James Stenhouse

Soung Design
Yas Clarke

Light Design
Alex Fernandes

Operator
Ruth Green

Set Design
Camilla Clarke

Dramaturgy
Tania El Khoury

Producer of Action Hero
Sarah Warden

Photos
Ana Viotti