«The Digital Cucumber» is a family performance that addresses economic bubbles, media technological echo chambers, AI, and the value of daring to fail and taking ownership of those failures. Among other things.

The story follows the development leading up to the launch of «The Digital Cucumber,» an AI that promises to provide answers to the most pressing questions humanity faces today, and then continues on as the project both collapses and takes on new, unforeseen, unstable, and risky forms. The secondary characters in the performance are fictional but playfully inspired by real-world individuals.

Through manipulations of the stage space and live-feed projections, the performers on stage create layers upon layers of narrative and visual stories, both through the ‘reality’ with the performers in the stage space and in the visual representations, through projections of fragments of reality.

Partially theater, partially live cinema – through a play with AV/low-fi video manipulation that effectively allows us to create fictional realities in multiple locations within the stage space. In contrast to the digital projections, we have chosen to create a performance space rich in tactile and sensory qualities: colors, shapes, touch, auditory interaction, and psychoacoustic.

ARTISTIC TEAM DDA
Idea, concept development and music – Liv Runesdatter
Direction and dramaturgy – Valentina Cechi (UK)
Scenography and costume – Kate Lane (UK)
Ensemble – Song Circus
Moving actor & storyteller – Richie Castro (USA)
Visual technology – Brave New Worlds (UK)
Electronics/interactive sound installation – Liv Runesdatter
Sound and AV technician – Eirik Bekkeheien