For reluctant theatre-goers who go into withdrawal when they’re asked to stow away their pocket-sized screens, The Situation Rooms offers a drastic solution. And even though the iPad videos for The Situation Rooms were filmed three years ago, its sprawling story continues indefinitely, out in the world. Devised by Berlin-based theatre collective Rimini Protokoll, The Situation Rooms is about the arms trade, and the impossibility of escaping its global currents of money and cycles of violence. Perhaps the most surprising thing about The Situation Rooms, however, is the fact that some of Rimini Protokoll’s interviewees actually wanted to tell their stories. Kaegi sneers at so-called 3D cinema with its “long history of making you sit in a movie theatre with ridiculous goggles.” As contrast, The Situation Rooms finds an immersive third dimension by opening up the fourth wall between spectator and performer, and then putting everyone inside.

Source: National Post June 14, 2016 18:11 UTC