DRONE
Multimedia Crime Story
by Dmitry Melkin
Multimedia Crime Story
by Dmitry Melkin
photo: Anastasia Igolnikova
performance
PAST
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
THU, 21 NOV, 19:30
Director and author of the play:
Dmitry Melkin
Performer: Gladstone Mahib
Voiceover: Alan Douglas Cox
Light designer: Anton Astakhov
Technical director: Aleksandr Ignotenko
Multimedia/graphic designers:
Yan Kalnberzin / Еvgeniy Afonin
(Curiosity Media Lab)
Sound designer: Dmitry Pavlukov
Composer: GeJu
Costume designer:
Svetlana Ruzhitskaya
Design identity:
Anastasia Igolnikova
Executive producer:
Evgenia Mamedova
General producer:
Nadezhda Tikhonchuk
Production company: Miss Air
Dmitry Melkin
Performer: Gladstone Mahib
Voiceover: Alan Douglas Cox
Light designer: Anton Astakhov
Technical director: Aleksandr Ignotenko
Multimedia/graphic designers:
Yan Kalnberzin / Еvgeniy Afonin
(Curiosity Media Lab)
Sound designer: Dmitry Pavlukov
Composer: GeJu
Costume designer:
Svetlana Ruzhitskaya
Design identity:
Anastasia Igolnikova
Executive producer:
Evgenia Mamedova
General producer:
Nadezhda Tikhonchuk
Production company: Miss Air
The creators of the performance do not aim to present the audience with a dramatic conflict or enact the text through characters. The story itself is very simple and has long been defined by its genre: a human betrays a machine, and she seeks revenge. Before claiming that AI is a problem for humanity, we must admit that humanity itself has been and remains the primary problem for humans: wars, violence, inequality, mercantilism — to name just a few.
The text of DRONE is designed as a soundscape in which the story, the meaning of spoken words, errors, failures or accidents, fragments of hypertext, and quotes operate parallel to one another on the same level. The actor imitates a robot and attempts to rediscover the image of a human, which is now most likely being shaped in the depths of AI algorithms and can be briefly described with the phrase: “Humans are not nice.”
The audience will see a sketch — a first approximation of the text/work-in-progress. We will read the text to the audience for the first time, accompanied by a powerful electronic soundscape and media support. This text, presented from the machine's perspective and exploring future scenarios in a different way, offers the audience a foreshortening, position, point of view.
The text of DRONE is designed as a soundscape in which the story, the meaning of spoken words, errors, failures or accidents, fragments of hypertext, and quotes operate parallel to one another on the same level. The actor imitates a robot and attempts to rediscover the image of a human, which is now most likely being shaped in the depths of AI algorithms and can be briefly described with the phrase: “Humans are not nice.”
The audience will see a sketch — a first approximation of the text/work-in-progress. We will read the text to the audience for the first time, accompanied by a powerful electronic soundscape and media support. This text, presented from the machine's perspective and exploring future scenarios in a different way, offers the audience a foreshortening, position, point of view.
Director and author of the play:
Dmitry Melkin
Performer: Gladstone Mahib
Voiceover: Alan Douglas Cox
Light designer: Anton Astakhov
Technical director: Aleksandr Ignotenko
Multimedia/graphic designers:
Yan Kalnberzin / Еvgeniy Afonin
(Curiosity Media Lab)
Sound designer: Dmitry Pavlukov
Composer: GeJu
Costume designer:
Svetlana Ruzhitskaya
Design identity:
Anastasia Igolnikova
Executive producer:
Evgenia Mamedova
General producer:
Nadezhda Tikhonchuk
Production company: Miss Air
Dmitry Melkin
Performer: Gladstone Mahib
Voiceover: Alan Douglas Cox
Light designer: Anton Astakhov
Technical director: Aleksandr Ignotenko
Multimedia/graphic designers:
Yan Kalnberzin / Еvgeniy Afonin
(Curiosity Media Lab)
Sound designer: Dmitry Pavlukov
Composer: GeJu
Costume designer:
Svetlana Ruzhitskaya
Design identity:
Anastasia Igolnikova
Executive producer:
Evgenia Mamedova
General producer:
Nadezhda Tikhonchuk
Production company: Miss Air
Contributors
DMITRY MELKIN
director, actor, and educator
director, actor, and educator
Melkin is a graduate of the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). Since 2007, he has been an actor and director at Liquid Theater. He is a laureate of the National Theater Award "Golden Mask" in the "Experiment" category. Since 2011, he has led the LOW TECH studio and is a resident of the Meyerhold Center. Melkin has created productions such as Solaris, Palms, In Praise of Idleness, and others. He studied biomechanics under Alexey Levinsky. As a director and educator, he taught at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop. His production of The Forest received numerous positive reviews from critics and earned five stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
GLADSTONE MAHIB
actor
actor
In 2015, Gladstone graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (under the guidance of D.V. Brusnikin). He also studied at Bob Wilson's Laboratory (New York). As an actor, he has appeared in the productions of Lorem Ipsum, A Man from Podolsk, Seryozha Is Very Stupid (directed by Marina Brusnikina), The Snow Drift (directed by Yuri Kvyatkovsky), This Is Also Me. Verbatim (directed by Dmitry Brusnikin and Yuri Kvyatkovsky), and Demons (directed by Mikhail Mokeev and Mikhail Rykhlin).