The Theater am Gleis in Winterthur is perhaps the smallest four-discipline theatre in Switzerland and has been offering exciting, current and lively cultural productions beyond the mainstream in the areas of theatre, dance, music and ...
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Happily Ever After
“Choose Happiness” is written on the snack machine. Benjamin just wants a chocolate bar. The coin gets stuck, and customer services know why: Benjamin must have a negative attitude, which is why the machine is being negative towards him. The Choose Happiness customer care app provides him with an avatar – an Emotional Assistant – who looks just like Benjamin and is supposed to help him become the happiest version of himself. To do this, Ben ‘only’ has to overcome his nature.
‘Happily Ever After’ explores the measurement of one’s own psyche in digital capitalism. Whilst the outside world spirals further out of control, we measure our psyche and make it predictable. Happiness guides advocate bringing inner landscapes to bloom and soothing the emotional weather. The rhetoric and imagery of these inner ‘treatments’ are often reminiscent of the visions of geo- and weather engineering; shaping one’s inner nature through targeted interventions. Happiness is a technology.
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Artistic direction: Benjamin Burger, Mona De Weerdt; Text, performance: Benjamin Burger; Direction: Andreas Storm, Benjamin Burger, Mona De Weerdt; Set design: Thomas Giger; Dramaturgy: Daniela Guse, Andreas Storm; Sound design: Ernesto Coba-Antequera; Avatar, animation: Stella Speziali; Production manager: Daniela Guse
Theater am Gleis
Untere Vogelsangstr. 3
8400 Winterthur
+41 52 212 79 55
info@theater-am-gleis.ch
Accessibility:
Infos Zugänglichkeit:
Please contact the theatre office directly on 052 212 79 55 or info@theater-am-gleis.ch and let us know if we can reserve a wheelchair space for you, if you need a seat in the front row or if you have any questions about accessibility.
Of course, you are also welcome without advance notice and we will find a suitable seat for you at the box office.
Assistance persons receive free admission. We have space for assistance dogs and guide dogs.
