Drumming tensions

CHANGE THE GAME by K&A, tells the story of a pawn who discovers and diffuses a classified tape of a high positioned politician-tower. It tells the story of a newly arrived piece from another board game that tries to find her way to adapt to the new game rules. It tells the story of a tower who rises to power, taking advantage of anyone and anything. It tells the story of the bishops who try to escape determinism and reinsert randomness into the game and their lives. Welcome to New Ebony; the city where chess rules. CHANGE THE GAME is an edgy multidisciplinary physical performance that underlines the political and poetical frames of our society: determinism, social class, migration and citizenship. This performance is based on the successful comic Un monde en pièces from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry.

K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon) plays with music, text binaural recording, chess-masks, IT design and collaborates with nine international performers in order to transform this 2D reading experience into a “total-experience” on stage. The audience follows speeches, meetings and dialogues via headphones – even the hidden inner thoughts of the characters. They receive messages on their phones through a tailor made application and can follow the characters behind the scenes through security cameras. With this daring staging the audience is dropped in the middle of New Ebony.