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Performance game by Roger Bernat Sun 30 March 2014, 3pm, 5pm Grotowski Institute, by the entrance to Przej¶cie ¯ela¼nicze Mon 31 March 2014, 3pm, 5pm Main Railway Station [Wroc³aw G³ówny] Square in front of Main Rail Station, to the right of the main entrance in front of the terrace Admission free Number of participants: 30–120. Performance in Polish and English Public Domain is (like) a life-size board game in which the spectator is more than just a pawn. Theatre maker Roger Bernat assembles a group of people – the audience – on a square. Who are they? Where do they come from? What is their relationship to each other? They walk across the square while listening to a series of questions and instructions on their headphones. Some are more innocent than others. The same can’t be said for the result; through the participants’ simple movements, small groups start to form in the audience. These microcommunities expose underlying social patterns and tell a tale that Bernat carefully orchestrates. While Public Domain starts off looking like a 3D poll brought to life, the project ends up transforming into a bizarre fiction. The main part of the show takes place in the public space. The final scene, consisting of a projection and a scale model, is located to an indoor space. The public space is not intended to be “privatized”. The audience, with “rented” headphones, can be mixed with passersby without affecting the legibility of the play. Spectators enter a setup that invites them to obey or conspire and, in any case, to pay with their own body and commit themselves wholeheartedly. Roger Bernat  Roger Bernat unfinished courses in painting and architecture. He won the 1996 Institut del Teatre Extraordinary Award. In 2008 he began to create pieces in which the audience takes over and becomes centre stage. His shows include Public Domain (2008), Purely Coincidental (2009), The Rite of Spring (2010), Please Continue: Hamlet (2011), Pending Vote (2012), RE-presentation (2013) and Desplazamiento del Palacio de La Moneda (2014). They have been performed in over twenty countries. In 2009, jointly with Ignasi Duarte, he published, Querido Público, El espectador ante la participación: jugadores, usuarios, prosumers y fans. More information: www.rogerbernat.info/en  |