Stockholm Film Festival

Chrissie lives with the conviction that
she and her twin-sister Carol, are adopted. When Carol has a success as an Olympic swimmer, a TV-crew wants to make a segment about the family. It will be twentyfour hours were relationships change and secrets are revealed.
In Via Satellite there is a scene where Chrissieis brother-in-law, Ken, is standing outside the family home together with the TV-producer, both are equipped with cellphones. Ken is pathetic, sad and as if he was tryi ng to I ive up to a reputation as a real ladies man, enterprising professional (electrician) and the family's rooster among all the hens.
The producer lives in the fast-lane
of the big city with plenty of money and
a desirable job. Ken can't even contact his customers without borrowing the producer's smaller, better cell-phone. Here, where two worlds meet, we see people constantly failing in the attempts to communicate. In spite of all the cell phones and the technical equipment, despite more or less intimate physical relations, we are not able to connect. The important thing, our origin, is lost along the way, forgotten about, or hidden away. But in Via Satellite surprising
truths are brought out into the light, at last.
Via Satellite was written for the stage and first performed in 1994. McCarten got the idea for the play when he was watching a sports-related segment on
TV that was showing an Olympic winners family, in the suburbs in its everyday environments. McCarten started thinking how tragic it would be if the athlete's parents had lost contact with their son a long time ago. He was also fascinated by the contrasts between reality and illusion, between everyday life and international fame. But mostly he was inspired by the distance between the wonders of technology and the human being's problems in communicating, her unwillingness to meet.
HELENA HEDERBERG

Premiärstatus

Svensk premiär

Medverkande

Danielle Cormack,Tim Balme,Rima Te Wiata

Producent

Philippa Campbell

Manus

Anthony McCarten

Foto

Simon Riera

Musik

David Bergeaud

Talat språk

English

 

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