Call Cutta at Home
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Call Cutta at Home
(c) Rimini Protokoll
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Call Cutta at Home
(c) Rimini Protokoll
The use of the photo is only free of charge in the context of the announcement of performances and with denomination of the author. Any further use of the photos, for example for illustration of reviews, shall be subject to payment of a fee. Please contact the photographer.
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Call Cutta at Home
(c) Rimini Protokoll
The use of the photo is only free of charge in the context of the announcement of performances and with denomination of the author. Any further use of the photos, for example for illustration of reviews, shall be subject to payment of a fee. Please contact the photographer.
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Call Cutta at Home
(c) Rimini Protokoll
The use of the photo is only free of charge in the context of the announcement of performances and with denomination of the author. Any further use of the photos, for example for illustration of reviews, shall be subject to payment of a fee. Please contact the photographer.
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Call Cutta at Home
By Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel
Who is there on the other end of the service-line? How do invisible workers look? What does outsourcing mean in the times of Corona? Can an Indian home be turned into a call centre?
Rimini Protokoll invites you to an intercontinental video conference play about outsourcing and tele-marketing.
More than 12 years ago Rimini Protokoll staged a 1:1 performative meeting between an Indian call center employee and an European theater visitor via telephone and video call. It started as a business talk and grew more and more private and intimate. “Call Cutta in a Box is arguably the most delightful, charming, engaging 50 minutes I have ever spent with a complete stranger.” wrote the The NZ Performing Arts Review & Directory.
2020 this project becomes a source of inspiration for a special adaptation for an international audience. Instead of a 1:1 conversation, the piece unfolds a temporary intranet of 30 people at their places. The hosting performers are at their home places in Calcutta, India, and Tallinn, Estonia.
During the 70-minutes-performance they show their homes, talk about the economical and personal implications of their work in the Call Centres, the limitations of everyday life due to Covid-19 and gradually involve the visitors - to the extend they appreciate - into this gathering: open for what they are happy to share about where they are. An intercontinental cup of tea - and round of dance, and round of thoughts that also looks into our individual futures.
Social distancing as a chance for new and playful encounters with people far away from one’s own reality.