A train station. Four authors observe the space from various perspectives. Typing into their laptops, they write live on what they see in the railway station and other things, too: private observations, things they make up, or historical information. Every word they type is projected onto a large screen, a separate one for each author.

Like surveillance cameras recording anonymous individuals’ every movement in the station, each writer transforms the spontaneous progress through a public space into narratives conveying what is going on – or might be going on – inside people’s heads in parallel with the bustling life of the station.

The viewers and chance passers-by become part of their narrative. One glance at the screen reveals that they have become figures in the process of being invented. Over the space and the time they share with the authors, the viewers are able to influence the fictionalization, and become part of a collective story.

Mariano Pensotti, Buenos Aires

Mariano Pensotti (1973) studied film, visual arts and theatre.
His works tend to differ from each other in terms of format but they all have one constant factor: his plays are a multitude of stories in which the tension between reality and fiction is present.
“La Marea” (“The Tide”, 2005/2010)  was a project re-created all over the world with different performers and spaces: In a street, various local actors play everyday scenes in a café, a bookshop or on a balcony. Audiences watch the scenes as they read the characters’ thoughts, written and projected onto them as subtitles.
Opening in Buenos Aires, Pensotti’s plays are usually performed in numerous theatres and festivals abroad, including the Kunstenfestival in Brussels, HAU Berlin, Dublin Festival, Automne Normandie, Carrefour de Quebec, Festival TransAmeriques, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Metropolis Copenhague, Norwich & Norfolk Festival, Homo Novus Riga and Sleep Slope Studio Yokohama.
His most recent work as a writer and director includes “El pasado es un animal grotesco” (“The past is a grotesque animal”, 2010), “Sucio” (“Dirty”, 2007/2009), “Interiores” (“Interiors”, 2007), “Los Muertos” (“The Dead”, 2005) and “Vapor” (“Steam”, 2004).

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