SXK 26-The Future is dark

The future is dark which is the best thing a future can be is a performance–board game that seeks critical ways of engaging with the urgencies of contemporary reality while activating alternative speculations about the future. Three players, guided by two facilitators, move like pawns across a floored landscape of stations of knowledge/ notions such as The Palace of Feminist Governance, The Rock of Responsibility, and The Cavern of Care, and through scores, they produce poetic manifestoes, imaginary narratives, critical questions, and embodied landscapes. The project investigates the relationship between the logic of a board game and choreographic thinking, blurring the line between performing arts and everyday life, proposing a horizontal redistribution of agency and power hierarchies. Drawing on the performativity and aesthetics of the (90s) TV game shows, the performance activates an open, vulnerable, and playful space for dialogue, reflection, and collective imagination.

Concept & Artistic Direction: Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou

Scenography, Game’s Visual Identity: Chrysa Georgiou

Performers: Eleana Alexandrou, Konstantina Skalionta, Costantina Peter, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou

Original Cast: Eleana Alexandrou, Konstantina Skalionta, Costantina Peter, Miriam Gatt, Areti Chourdaki, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou

Graphics: Mary Pilakouri

Electronics Advisor: Yiannis Poulakis

Production: A moment to Perform

In the frame of the Terpsichori 2025 programme of the Department of Contemporary Culture - Deputy Ministry of Culture.

* The title is borrowed from a quote that Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1915, following the outbreak of the First World War, as an attempt to preserve hope.  

Duration: 120’ 

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