Sometimes you have to leave the safety of your home to really appreciate what you have and zoom out to see the bigger picture.

 

In the boundless, visual and musical outdoor performance WE ARE ALL ASTRONAUTS, Theater Gajes invites the audience on a space trip to Mars, to experience a “coup de foudre” and return to the planet Earth and its inhabitants. In our show we address to an “overview effect” – a change of consciousness in astronauts that involves a sense of emotional closeness to the Earth in the face of great physical distance, and we want to make it tangible to the audience, to evoke the feeling of love to the Earth – “… a pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known”. WE ARE ALL ASTRONAUTS makes you look in a different way at that ball of rock that is home to nearly 8 billion people. We look from the universe to Earth and fall in love (again) with our home.

 

The performance takes place on a predetermined route in a city. Our artists – astronauts move together with astronauts-in-training (volunteers and the audience) through the city to the launch pad to Mars. Scenes are performed at four locations along the route. Between the scenes, the audience can move with the performance. The final scene is performed in one of the central city squares where the audience will see the launch of the spaceship to Mars.

 

In our show we use static and movable objects. Some actors move on stilts and others on movable objects. Live-music is performed throughout the whole show. The performance is filled with humor and live music.

 

The duration of the performance is 70 minutes. Potential audience outreach is 1500 spectators per show.