Presented by the Goethe-Institut in association with The Public Theater and the Brooklyn Museum
Renowned theater-makers
Rimini Protokoll present the US premiere of their latest production,
Top Secret International (State 1),
an algorithmic-based interactive theater experience, at The Public Theater’s 13th annual Under the Radar Festival.
In the Egyptian Wing of the Brooklyn Museum, audience members turn into inconspicuous agents of espionage, navigating the global network of the intelligence community. Where will their mission take them? Who can be trusted? And what happens when the game is over? Is it a game? At a time of global surveillance scandals, no-spy agreements, and whistleblower platforms, Rimini Protokoll enters the global web of state secrets and secret services―the state within the state.
For performance times and tickets, please visit the website of
Under the Radar.
On January 6,
Helgard Kim Haug of Rimini Protokoll and
Imanuel Schipper, dramaturge of
Top Secret International (Staat 1), will be in conversation with
Gideon Lester, director of Bard College’s Theater and Performance Program, at the Goethe-Institut New York.
Rimini Protokoll is the label of the theater-makers Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, who have been working collaboratively since 2000. Their groundbreaking stage productions, sound and radio plays, films, and installations deal with the theatrical elements of our reality, placing experts instead of actors at the center.
Top Secret International (State 1) is a production by Rimini Protokoll and Münchner Kammerspiele, in co-production with the Goethe-Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, with support from Melbourne Festival.
Top Secret International (State 1) is co-initiated by the Goethe-Institut as part of
Sensitive Data, a long-term international project that aims to advance international, interdisciplinary, and theoretical discourse and artistic exploration on and around surveillance and data capitalism. The Goethe-Institut’s partners are Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education, Münchner Kammerspiele, and Bard College.
Top Secret International (State 1) is the first piece in Rimini Protokoll’s series,
State 1–4, a cooperation between Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Münchner Kammerspiele, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and Rimini Protokoll, in the context of the HKW long-term project “100 Years of Now”. Funded by Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
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