What unfolds is a sung, emotional and chaotic brainstorming session, a looping performance-within-the-performance, where rehearsal, fiction and reality collapse into one another.

Human confusion and the superficiality of artificial intelligence begin to feed each other in an absurd spiral.

Blending folk songs, classical quotations and expressive parlato, the piece moves between happening, literature, theatre and opera. On stage are VR-masks the audience can use to explore a dystopian Eden. This goes largely ignored by the performers, too busy with their own chaos.

With wit and unpredictability, Franz explores AI and the strange beauty of human chaotic behaviors.

This is the final part of Andrea Spreafico and Matteo Fargion’s trilogy inspired by Dante’s Purgatorio, the middle cantica of the Divine Comedy.

Artist Talk november 19th

An artist talk with performers from the company will take place immediately after the performance on november 19th, in the auditorium. The moderator for the conversation will be decided closer to the performance. The talk is free of charge and will last up to 60 minutes.

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Audio description november 20th

The performance of Franz on Friday the 20th of November is audio described. Audio description is a narration of the visual information that would otherwise be received through the sense of sight. The performance will be audio described live in English. It is transmitted from a narrator and out through a headset given to the audience. The audience will get the necessary equipment to listen to the description at the box office before the performance start