RCE

About the show

The world needs a reboot! The five hackers in this play are in agreement about that. But how to startle the masses from their lethargy? Never mind whether humanity even wants to be saved or how megalomaniac or naïve their plans to save the world may appear, the five nerds are hacking like there’s no tomorrow, because after all – the wondrous world of cyberspace! In Sibylle Berg’s version of a not-too-distant future, every field of human life has been digitalised, catalogued, surveyed and commercialised for profit. And they’re all ready to be taken over by a few good Remote Code Executions – a kind of digital remote control. But the question is: taken over by whom? And what for? Of course, the five nerds are the good guys. They beat the system with its own devices and cause its collapse through a revolutionary cyber-attack. After all: "If you want to win, you have to learn from the people who own the planet, ruin it and then intend to leave it." In her latest novel, Sibylle Berg takes trends and facts of our times to the next fictional level – and director Kay Vogesstages it true to the motto in RCE: "We need a revolution you can dance to!"