Roger Bernat (ES)

Pending Vote

Trafo passes are accepted

Tickets

immersive parliamentary play

#democracy #togetherinthecity #parliament

only in hungarian

It was a large room.

Full of people.

All kinds.

And they had all arrived at the same buidling at more or less the same time.

And they were all free.

And they were all asking themselves the same question:

What is behind that curtain?

You were born.

And so you’re free.

Laurie Anderson

Welcome to the Parliamentary Chamber! Armed with a remote control, you are a Member of Parliament called to vote. Education, security, civil liberties, pop music... it's up to you to govern and take a stand! With an informal approach to the democratic system, the place of the citizen in public debate and the motivations that drive our decisions, this immersive theatre encourages us to rediscover the political role of the spoken word, far from the pretence of parliamentary debates and show politics.

DRAMATIST’S NOTES

In current politics, the function of spoken language is to not convince anyone, meanwhile things change driven by powers that are not seen and that after all, don’t even produce dialogue. Let’s see what happens if suddenly, in the absence of any effective power, the role of the spoken word becomes once again that exquisite, originally political, tool to convince the listener.

Perhaps the last beach of real politics can be found in the total absence of practical power. PENDING VOTE aims to be that last beach. Not the false version of a real parliamentary debate, but the real version of the current false debate. No more fictional politics, but politics of fiction: genuine politicians against the real politicians; or true politics against all forms of realpolitik.

Immersion theatre? More like, emergence theatre…