ELIZA uncanny love

The production "ELIZA uncanny love" transfers the ancient myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who falls in love with his statue, into the 21st century and replaces the statue with a robot with artificial intelligence.
 
The modern Pygmalion becomes an engineer, a programmer who creates a humanoid robot. He falls in love already during the process of creation. He caresses arms and legs long before he assembles them into a whole body. He fills in the missing parts with his own gestures and movements and merges with his creation into a hybrid of human and machine.

„ELIZA deals with the theme of artificial humans in a very concrete and sensual way. Anna Illenberger, who also sings, underpins the stage action with technoid, exciting sounds. The animation of the puppet limbs is admirable, the coordination of the movements of artificial human and human precise." (StZN)
 

The robot parts become increasingly alive, ELIZA becomes an independent counterpart and an uncanny game between dance and technology begins.

"This robotic being that emerges on stage is the real attraction of the evening. For it is a figure reminiscent of a human being, which can actually move by remote control, which finally speaks, and the technology alone with which this stage creature has been created can astonish. ... An exciting play, carried by the impressive performance of the soloist Lamers and by the technique of the figure." (LKZ)
 

FUNDED BY Stadt Stuttgart, FITZ! Stuttgart, Carslberg Fondation, Fonds Darstellende Künste and Custom Entertainment Solutions Inc.
 

PREMIERE 04.11.2019 FITZ! Stuttgart

DIRECTOR Iris Meinhardt
PERFORMANCE Ludger Lamers
SCENOGRAPHY Michael Krauss
ROBOTIC Nils Bennett & Michael Krauss
LIGHT/VIDEO Nadja Weber
LIVE MUSIC Anna Illenberger