Millions of years ago, a world existed, inhabited by plants, animals and plankton no human had ever set sight on, living on this planet solely for their own sake.

A power outage in Czechia, wind turbine parks in northern Germany and an encounter in Washington Square Park: in the German-Czech audio play BLACKOUT, Glitch AG muses about what the absence of electricity can tell us about our dependence on electricity. While this remains a topic of theoretical speculation in Hamburg, in Czechia, the dramaturgist Klára becomes witness to how the toilet flush, heating system and smartphone, each one after the other, give up the ghost.

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A cooperation with divadlo na cucky in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Supported by the German-Czech Zukunftsfonds, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung – Kunst kennt keinen Shutdown, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Olomoucký kraj, Statutární město Olomouc and Ministerstvo kultury České republiky.