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AUT presents evening length music theatre set in an absurd call centre, written by composer Matthew Grouse. There will be 3 showings at
Teater Refleksion, Aarhus between 2-4 February 2024. Each performance is preceded by a participatory installation in the theatre's foyer.
The performance is predominantly in English
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DATES:
Friday 02.02 - Doors open for installation at kl.19 / Performance starts at kl.20
Saturday 03.02 - Doors open for installation at kl.19 / Performance starts at kl.20
Sunday 04.02 - Doors open for installation at kl.15 / Performance starts at kl.16
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Tickets: 100kr adults / 50kr students
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ATTENTION! Interested audience members are highly encouraged to sign up for some optional extra material, delivered over the phone in the
run up to the performance. Find out more and sign up at this link: https://forms.gle/Vpo3uKT2yfjwweEE9
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About the performance: At the data collection agency ‘Re-sounding Success’, call centre workers equipped with instruments sit behind their
computer screens, waiting (played by Andreas Borregaard and Anna Jalving). While they wait to be transferred, the hold-music of each
company on their call-list is played by a live house band that can only be glimpsed as silhouettes behind an illuminated screen.
Operating at the boundaries of new music, experimental theatre involving audience participation, and interactive installation art, the project’s
central themes land on the unsettling musicality buried in repetitive labour, cold-calling and workplace technology; the psychological effects
of hold-music; and existential questions surrounding time, purpose and agency.
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TEAM:
Composition/concept: Matthew Grouse
Produced by: Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
Soloists: Andreas Borregaard (accordion and voice) and Anna Jalving (violin and voice)
Ensemble musicians: Hsiao Tung Yuan (percussion, keyboards), Kirstine Elise Pedersen (cello, guitar), Joss Smith (clarinet, whistles, melodica)
Staging/directing consultant: Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Sound technician: Morten Elkjær
Production assistance: Jacob Ridderberg and Frederik Sakham
Contributions to installation and visuals: Jan Giedroyc
Voice acting: Jan Giedroyc, Lily Grouse, Sam Wilson, Harry Gorski-Brown, Mathilde Schelin, Matthew Grouse
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In partnership with: Current Resonance, Teater Refleksion, K!ART, Don't Look Back Records
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AUT is extremely grateful to the following foundations for financially supporting the project:
Statens Kunstfond, William Demant Fonden,
Det Obelske Familiefond, Augustinus Fonden, Dansk Komponistforening , KODA Kultur, CAC Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fonden, Statens Kunstfond,
Aarhus Kommunes Musikpulje