Das Goldene Zeitalter

Fifty-year-old Christel ventures a fresh start at the legendary start-up Anima, which has set up shop in a former factory in Brandenburg. The initial euphoria is followed by boredom and apathy as Christel’s work assignments all come to nothing.

Slowly, she realises that nobody on site knows what is actually being produced in this ‘dark factory’. Whilst the powerless boss, Gina, gradually settles into her comfortable office, the coder Frankie loses herself in a pathological thirst for revenge against her employer; the high-flyer Tommy searches for his personal god in the hypnotic server room. So Christel must decide whether to join the resistance, surrender to the ecstasy of meaninglessness, or dare to take the leap of faith into nothingness.

Inspired by David Graeber’s *Bullshit Jobs*, the play explores contemporary upheavals in society.

Existential questions are illuminated through novel experiences of the futility of work and AI. Amidst deadly serious team-building activities, trivial belief in miracles and increasing militarisation, the question arises as to where this longing for the apocalypse actually comes from.