Do better than Berset to stop the pandemic!
With the game designers of Team Kaedama, Yan Duyvendak propagates “Virus”, a democratic particle that gives the spectator the role of the decision maker.
Yan Duyvendak’s “Virus” has already claimed its victims in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Zurich before spreading to Geneva.
THOMAS DWORZAK
He is definitely very strong, this Yan Duyvendak who peddles made in Geneva performance throughout Europe. Not content with simulating a pandemic on stage, the artist of Dutch origin goes so far as to thwart the course of time. Its new concept, «Virus», was released from the laboratory in 2019, before the first wave of Covid. Suspended in its diffusion for the very reasons that it anticipated, it has been inoculated since the beginning of the month in the neurons at the end of the lake. Imagined as a prophecy, the experience is given to live as a return to the image: but an image of which the spectator is this time the protagonist.
From 40 to 80 strangers invade like bacteria the tray of the modular room of the Comedy. Depending on the body of power with which they have chosen to join – health, security, economy, press, population, vital resources, research – they wear a different colored chasuble and meet in groups around tables where a bottle of hydroalcoholic gel is next to a notebook and fake banknotes. Each cell will have its missions to accomplish, reviving the anxiety-provoking terminology to which recent years have accustomed us. “Epizootics”, “doses of vaccine”, “antiviral treatments”, “security measures”, “telework” and all the tintouin.
At the end of the different phases of the game, the government crisis unit must vote on the possible closing of schools or borders in the face of the increase in cases of infection.
KIRA BARLACH
Above all, each will have urgent decisions to make, following internal or interministerial consultations and negotiations, which will influence the future of society by affecting the current progression curves of the dangerous H7N9. Two coordinators, equipped with microphones and documents to be dispatched – in the role of imponderable events – ensure the proper functioning of the whole within the given deadlines. Bombarded specialist, each participant must draw sometimes in his knowledge, sometimes in his gifts of observation, his faculty of communication or his intimate convictions to lead the collective boat without causing too much collateral damage.
Here on a Dutch plateau, the group of “the people” takes to the streets to react to the ineffectiveness of government decisions.
NIEL’S KNELIS
Yan Duyvendak does not let his audience breathe. Remember, almost ten years ago, he had him deliberate a verdict after the trial he brought against Hamlet («Please, continue (Hamlet)»). Shortly before, with the collaboration of Nicole Borgeat, he inflicted on her “7 Minutes of Terror” launching it into orbit in interplanetary space-time. A few years later, he confronted him with his social responsibilities vis-à-vis migrants (“Actions”). Very recently, he invited him to pool his skills in order to solve an enigma («Twist»). With «Virus», the activist revisits less a pandemic scenario than he creates a city on stage. Hat.
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