Marcus Braun

Andras and Antonia were chosen for one another by a dating program. But the anticipated similarities are not immediately obvious upon meeting for the first time, in the safe anonymity of cyberspace. Where some things are stranger than in reality, but many much simpler. Moving from a platonic to a sexual to a violent approach doesn’t take very long here.
Fascinated by the absence of physical and biological laws, Andras and Antonia test the possibilities. Doesn’t physical absence equal absence of social rules? Can a virtual existence even be held responsible? At frantic speed, this awkward couple live through the milestones of a romance. And when communication threatens to stop after the sexual act, they go looking for new stimulation. But the abstract gains contours. The tangible shines through and is unforeseeably threatening. Both have more in common than they would like.

In Andras and Antonia, Marcus Braun exposes the varieties of the virtual. Choirs cross these meetings in the nowhere and accompany the play with poetry. Does the distinction between real and virtual make sense, if the invented life takes up more and more space and manages to pull the real one down into the abyss?