Abgehoben

"In October 2021, the University will implement its biggest project yet. Long-awaited, elaborate and more resource-intensive than ever, we want to build it with you: The Uni3000. Count yourself among the brightest minds of our time and contribute your individual talents to the construction of the rocket. The Uni3000 project will lift us all into a bright future and redefine human fate. With Uni 3000, life in space becomes possible! With Uni 3000, the problems of this earth will disappear into smoke and mirrors, because we will shoot ourselves straight into an utopia! With Uni 3000, we can take ourselves as a university and as humanity further than we dared to dream in recent years! A project which is more important than ever in today’s age of countless crises. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to be a part of and make a big difference! It is time to leave the old behind, answer to the call of technology and conquer outer space!" Louis Vogel in Abgehoben.

Abgehoben was devised to be a critically performative game in which the potential for change at Swiss Universities was to be tested and, optimistically speaking, enlarged. So Zurich University’s theatre-hall became a rocket, which the audience had to get ready for take-off. But during the construction phase, more and more spectators were led into the back room to Galileo.

Will it get to revolution this time?

Production, Game Design and Direction  by Friederike Karpf and Emma Sacks

Text Louis Vogel/ David Schwegler/ Emma Sacks and Friederike Karpf

Acting and stage Zurich Student Theatre