ABSTRACT

In their recent production, the tetralogy State 1–4 (2016–2018), Rimini Protokoll focuses on post-democratic phenomena such as the global network of intelligence, construction sites, and lobbyism, digitalisation of democracy, and the interweaving structures of global companies and politics. For each of these rather political contents a special setting not only for an aesthetic space experience was constructed but also a unique way of how to address, organise, and guide the audience through the theatre event. Different strategies of participation and interaction come into action in order to generate an immersive experience. This chapter will discuss different concepts of post-democracy (Rancière, Crouch, Blühdorn) as well as the different dramaturgies of staging the publics in these contexts.