PATROL (2019)

In PATROL, players are immersed in a fictitious urban work environment where a company is promising security services on demand.

machina eX heads into the city with this new adventure. In PATROL, players become contractors for a fictitious company that offers surveillance services on commission. Armed with smartphones and supported by friendly humanoid co-workers, audience members immerse themselves in a world of work and play where urban reality unfolds under a gauzy fictional veil. As a theatrical near-future simulation, PATROL showcases a playable world where platform capitalism has opened up the market of the future: security on demand.

Premiere / Venues

Premiere in June 2019 at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

May 2021 at the FFT Düsseldorf

Two people in dress shirts and red ties bend over a cash register in an open construction container. Two casually dressed people are in front of them.
Two hands hold a smartphone with an illegible chat history on the screen.
Three people are standing around in a park-like area, busy with their smartphones.
A person with a backpack approaches a person sitting at a table in a café. There is a Macbook on the table.
A person holds a piece of paper in their hand that says, “Want guaranteed 5-star reviews? Then contact me! Rick Miller”
A person sits on a park bench looking at a playground.
A person in a sleeveless blouse with a beige handbag stands in front of post-war urban buildings and looks out of the photo on the right.

Credit: Lara Rodriguez Cruz

Concept: machina eX /// Performance: Anne Eigner, Joyce Ferse, Gerard Gorszyca, Clara Jansen, Fabian Jezuita, Ronni Maciel, Ikko Masuda, Ania Rafeld, Stéphanie Reist, Sophie Roeder, Cosima Straub /// Performance (Voice): Nora Decker /// Performance (Photos): Stefan Tontsch /// Text: Clara Ehrenwerth /// Direction and Game Design: Yves Regenass /// Interactive Design and Programming: Benedikt Kaffai, Lasse Marburg /// Dramaturgy and Sound Design: Mathias Prinz /// Costume Design: Therese Röder /// Graphics and Web Design: Simon Koschmieder /// Assistant Direction: Laura Tontsch /// Translation: Layne Mosler /// Production management: Sina Kießling

Production: machina eX. Coproduction: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf. . Funded by the Capital City Culture Fund of the Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe. With support from the Transform Festival Leeds