tinylife

by Jaimie Carswell & Alexander Kipp
directed by Jaimie Carswell

"...Carswell and Kipp masterfully transform the world of the stage into a space of magical possibilities."-- Irish Theatre Magazine

“Tinylife” is life on-line: life in the myriad virtual worlds of chatrooms, websites, and online communities where everything is coded, nothing is real, nothing is true or false, and anything, at one level or another, is possible.

tinylife is also where Captain Napkin, an anarchic, Baudrilliard-esque clown, lives. The Captain is the digital alter-ego of Grant, a lowly office drone at the giant Corporation Corp. Everyday Grant uses his on-line alter-ego to escape from reality until one day Captain Napkin decides to give Grant’s “real world” a spin. But will real life, with its everyday absurdity and zero-sum paradoxes, prove too much for our virtual hero?

Described as “a clown show for the 21 st century”, tinylife is set in a soulless office cubicle of the vast and sprawling Corporation Corp., and the play imagines what would happen if the personalities people create in emails and online communities were suddenly set loose in our real-world lives. The play uses a fast-paced, commedia-based performance style to reach beyond the artificial surfaces and intuitive interfaces of contemporary life and explores a tech-savvy modern world of contradiction, alienation, randomness, metaphor and escape.

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