God is a DJ

“He” is a DJ, has worked in clubs, transformed moods into sounds: a god of the technosphere. “She” was broadcasting daily for a music channel before their joint project began: a life as a work of art, every day in their own home – both trash and museum installation – as a performance in front of running video cameras, which send the images live via the internet to an art gallery. “An atmospheric image of the world of youth cults, between techno and cyber, e-mail and Derrida.”
(Der Tagesspiegel on the world premiere at Staatstheater Mainz )

“Falk Richter’s pop Pirandello is a computer-clean construct, whose reality content is indeterminable because all the links between art and life are scrupulously blurred. The dialogue runs on like a long soundtrack, the language humming in long, gently swinging sentences, the dialogue simply changes of speaker in a text which never ends. The dramaturgy follows a cut’n’mix of ready-made sections, new subjects are faded in and out while the characters change from one sound to the next. God is a DJ is the play which the times deserve: a play about a culture industry, which is what the contemporary art scene has become.”
(Theater heute)

Falk Richter’s play has been translated into more than 40 languages and performed all around the world since its premiere in 1999.

A reading performance of the play with Falk Richter and Bibiana Beglau has toured several venues.