Minneapolis, MN
Fight Night (Minneapolis)
Five contenders. Five rounds. Your vote. Only one will survive.
“Funny, revealing, and very invigorating. … You will encounter things that no US company would dare do.” —Chicago Tribune Five contenders. Five rounds. You decide. As US democracy hangs in the balance, Belgian theater collective Ontroerend Goed offers an interactive, provocative examination of free will and politics in which the actors’ fates hinge on the audience’s live votes. This experimental hit is a sharp, often ironic, analysis of how democracy works (if it works). It marks Ontroerend Goed’s return to the Walker following their presentation of the ingenious climate parable Are we not drawn onward to new erA in 2023. The audience becomes the electorate in an interactive play examining free will and politics.
Audience Role
ACCESS NOTE: This performance incorporates audience participation through the use of a clicker.
Ages: 16 +
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About ONTROEREND GOED
Theatre-performance-group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as “Feel Estate”) produces self-devised work grounded in the here and now, inviting their audiences to participate as well as observe. They first emerged on the international scene in 2007, with ‘The Smile Off Your Face’, a one-on-one show in which the audience is tied to a wheelchair and then blindfolded. Their hit show ‘Once and For All’ was an uncompromising celebration of raw teenage energy on stage. With every new piece of work, Ontroerend Goed provides an intense experience constructed in reality; life goes on during the performance. The company has won numerous prizes across Europe and has hit New York, Sydney, London to critical acclaim. Their work is currently being performed in countries around the world Ontroerend Goed functions as a collective guided by the artistic director Alexander Devriendt. Convinced that every idea deserves its own brand of artistic expression, the company cherishes a sense of ownership for every single contributor to their work, from actors to light designers, scenographers to conceptual thinkers. Ontroerend Goed fabricates possible realities that question how we as individuals position ourselves in the world today. Covering a history of the universe in one evening, turning spectators into voters who eliminate actors, guiding strangers through a labyrinth of mirrors and avatars to meet themselves, the company has made it its trademark to be unpredictable in content and form.