Thomas Köck (AT) / BpSkizo: Fukuyama után

“In his 1989 essay The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argues that liberal democracy is the final stage of political and social development. Does this mean we have arrived at the best of all possible worlds? Has a new era truly begun? Or have the power structures around us simply been rearranged?

Following Fukuyama, a theatrical oratorio created with live-action film techniques takes us into a dystopian world with provocative visuals, montages, unique technical solutions, and eclectic musical accompaniment.

In the context of populism, illiberal democracies, and the illusions of a crumbling Western European society, we question our belief in progress.

A seemingly fatal data leak occurs at the Institute for Happiness and Future Research, while the Choir of the Crumbling Liberal Illusions of the Politically Hopeless (P.R.O.L.I.K.) attempts to recount its own chaotic history. With the voice of a post-historical choir and grotesque humor, we present an unstable world in which everything has become uncertain: power, community, and self-identity.

Thomas Köck's work is a satirical vision, distorted into a documentary performance by Hungarian reality.

(BpSkizo Group)

Writer: Thomas Köck

Translator: Zoltán Halasi

Director: Dániel Máté Sándor

Cast: Gergely Váradi, Dominika Rezes, Emina Messaoudi, Bálint Bán, Veronika Kozma, István Szacsvai

Script: Adrian Samudovszky, Dániel Máté Sándor

Composers: Mihály Bánki, Zsigmond Sándor

Cinematographers: Soma Varga, Lázár Todoroff

Video artist: András Fehér

Set designer: Mira Simonyi-Lengyel

Sound engineer: Milán Pellei

Lighting technician: Mátyás Major

Production manager: Balázs Márton

The performance was created with the permission of © Suhrkamp Verlag AG Berlin, through the mediation of Hofra Kft.

Supporters: Goethe Institute Budapest, Austrian Cultural Forum, Vates