Frank Bätge

The Black Sea Oracle (2008)


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The world is kept in motion by energy created during games played by a secret organisation … and so the game masters, their servants and players continue spinning the wheels of fate in the Eastern regions of Europe, near where the legendary Martha Rubin once appeared. The first stop for the Black Sea Oracle Games was the vacant floor of the Hotel Passage in Odessa, and the second in the crumbling Vazrozhdenie Library of Varna. As the players struggle for survival, bets are made and identities drift until the oracle appears again.

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ODESSA:
Date: 29th of May 15:00 to 31st of May 24:00, 2008, nonstop

Place: Hotel Passage, Preobragenskaya 34

VARNA:
Date: 5th of June 15:00 until the 7th of June 24:00, 2008, nonstop

Place: "Vazrozhdenie" Library, Slavyanska Str. 28


Press Quotes:

"Viele von den jungen Zuschauer aus Odessa bleiben die ganze Zeit über oder kommen mehrmals wieder. Ernsthaft entwickeln sie diese Parallelwelt mit, diskutieren die Entscheidungen der Gamemasters, versuchen zu intervenieren, wenn ihre Favoriten nicht gewinnen, und je länger das Spiel dauert und die beginnenden Tage sich mürbe an durchfeierte Nächte anschließen, desto natürlicher werden die großen Fragen nach dem Sinn des Lebens, Schicksal, Glück und Leid erwogen und gewendet."
- David Baltzer, Nachtkritik

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Concept: Signa Köstler

Direction: Signa Köstler with Arthur Köstler

Audiovisual Media and Technical Design: Arthur Köstler

Set Design: Signa Köstler & Thomas Bo Nilsson

Production: KIT, SEAS and SIGNA

Devising Ensemble Odessa: (in alphabetical order)
Arthur Köstler as Player
Emil Groth Larsen as Player
Evgeniy Bal as Servant
Frank Bätge as Game Master
Gry Worre Hallberg as Player
Irina Nirsha as Servant
Irina Zabrodina Jørgensen as Servant
Larisa Venediktova as Servant
Maria Pia Bertoldi as The Goddess
Momir Subotic as Servant
Olga Komisar as Servant
Oleksandr Lebediev as Servant
Signa Köstler as The Rabbit
Sybille Meier as Maid
Thomas Bo Nilsson as Game Mistress

Devising Ensemble Varna: (in alphabetical order)
Arthur Köstler as Player
Emil Groth Larsen as Player
Frank Bätge as Game Master
Gry Worre Hallberg as Player
Irina Zabrodina Jørgensen as Servant
Maria Pia Bertoldi as The Goddess
Momir Subotic as Servant
Signa Köstler as The Rabbit
Thomas Bo Nilsson as Game Mistress
Vladislav Violinov as Servant
Vyara Tabakova as Servant

 
   
 
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