15.000 Gray (2011)

Play the room, solve the puzzles, experience the story, save the world (or something)!

This time the game is set in a laboratory: Professor Hövel has made a groundbreaking discovery. But his information is in danger of falling into the wrong hands. What are you going to do?

15.000 Gray premiered at the 100° Festival at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin in 2011 and was awarded the festival’s jury prize. A series of invitations followed: to the Impulse Festival, the Foundation of Lower Saxony’s Best OFF Festival of Free Theater, and the Körber Studio for Young Directors, among others.

A mobile theater game for 12 players. Duration: approximately 45 minutes.

Premiere / Venues

Premiere in February 2011 at the 100° Festival at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

July 2011 at the Festival Impulse

September 2011 at the SchlimmCity Festival Ringlockschuppen Mühlheim an der Ruhr

Oktober 2011 at the Best OFF Festival Freier Theater of the Stiftung Niedersachsen

November 2012 at the FFT Düsseldorf

April 2013 at the Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (presented by MIGROS Kulturprozent)

April 2014 Zeitgeist festival Washington (DC)
June 2016 in the Kultur- und Kommunikationszentrum Sumpfblume Hameln

Donaufestival Krems

Schlachthof Bremen

A lamp is shining on a person in a lab coat. People are standing around her in the dark, facing her.
A person in a short pantsuit stands in the middle of a hallway, speaking to a group of people.
Two people bend over a table with a portable radio, a lamp, a cactus, fruit, and cups.
A person in a lab coat is sitting on a chair with something electronic in their lap. A person next to them grabs them by the shoulder.
A person in a lab coat is sitting on a chair with something electronic in their lap. A group of people stands around, looking at the electronic device.
A person in a lab coat and safety goggles leans over a table and takes a test tube from a stand.
A person in a lab coat aims a pistol at something outside the picture.
A person in a lab coat aims a pistol at a shadowy figure in the foreground.
Several people look together at a single screen.
Several people look together at a single screen.

Credit: Robin Junike


Computer games conquer the theater stage

radio report by Dagmar Walser

Idea, Concept and Execution: Laura Alisa Schäffer, Jan Philip Steimel /// Performance and Dramaturgy: Anan Fries, Laura Naumann, Yves Regenass /// Performance (Audio): Lasse Marburg, Jan Philip Steimel /// Production management: Nele Katharina Lenz /// Equipment: Anan Fries /// Soundtrack and Sound Design: Mathias Prinz /// Programming, Technical Puzzle Design, Hacking, and Electrical Engineering: Lasse Marburg, Robin Krause, Jan Philip Steimel

Testing: Marielle Schavan, Thomas Stöckl, Karl Flenders, Thomas Mielmann, Johanna Stapelfeld, Lucas Humann, Gianna Pargätzi, Henning Schlüter, Jakob, Lukas Rik, u.v.m.

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