17 Goals. City.Country.Bus. A theatrical research journey from the future.

17 Goals. City.Country.Bus. A theatrical research journey from the future.

Multimedia theater – Live in 6 online episodes

“100 years of the peace gene! 100 years without war. 100 years of a united humanity.” All problems seem solved until, for inexplicable reasons, the peace gene of united humanity begins to regress. Egoism, exploitation of people and nature, wars, and climate catastrophes are once again knocking at humanity’s door. The first are already prepared to let them in if it means they can own and consume more, and alone.

The World Council then decides on a radical solution. Anyone who does not survive the escape room in the City.Country.Bus. will be biologically dismantled. Time is running out … .

Follow along as a small, unnoticed person – like you and me – is presented with the button to save humanity and does not know what the right thing is, but feels it deep inside …

fast * deadly * razor-sharp

Watch all episodes free of charge at www.stadtlandbus.org

The trailer for the series.

Directed by
Olaf Sabelus

Acting & Performance
Tobias Novo // Sophie Botschek // Anna Moebus

Actor in episode 2 and trailer
Stephen Appleton

Play
Olaf Sabelus and Tobias Novo, Sophie Botschek, Anna Moebus

Set design, visual arts and performance
Natasza Deddner

Assistant director and production assistant, and various voices in the play
Robert Steffen

Cooperation partners
Stadt.Land.Markt e.V.
Sommerblut Festival of Multipolar Culture
German Watch e.V.

funded by
Foundation for Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia.
Robert Bosch Foundation

Link to the report in the General-Anzeiger from 25 May 2020

Premiere dates and season launch // afterwards all videos online

23 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 1 * // The Motion to Intervene
24 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 2 * // The Museum Show
25 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 3 * // Ignore me!
26 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 4 * // The Garbage Man
27 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 5 * // Is it really already that bad?
28 May 2020 at 20:20 // Episode 6 * // Escape Room

*  World premiere

From the program booklet:
“Omnibus Theater 17+1” City and countryside tomorrow and the day after tomorrow //
The failure of the markets, politics, the public sphere, and ultimately also top-level research lies at the center of this artistic-scientific research project, which seeks ways to bring us closer to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and to guide us as a society more effectively and sustainably through the transformation.
In the participatory process of the performance situation, these attempts also become the audience’s search. A shared thinking and feeling emerges in the space and laboratory of the theater.
The theater laboratory embarks on a journey of discovery from the city through the countryside into another city and through public space. Entertainment, laughter, and exciting stories bring people together in shared thought. We want to embark on this research journey with the audience in full seriousness and with all the urgency of the problems and horror scenarios ahead of us, while not forgetting lightness and entertainment. That is why we have added an eighteenth goal to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals: the right to good entertainment!