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Reality is something you rise above.

- Liza Minelli 
This is a running list of recent, current and upcoming events featuring my work.

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JASS

Saturday 15th May 2021; 13:o0 BST

ONLINE
Public Table Read of a new play in development by Sebastian Michael

CAST

Prim: Tiggy Bayley 
Melody
: Marcus J Foreman 

Xavier
: Petri Stefanescu 

Ewan
: Alex Granville 

TomTom
: Amy Leis 

The Voice of the Corporation: Tiers One, Two, and Four: 
Eleanor Healing


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IN PRAISE OF FOLLY

Thursday 14th November 2019; 21:o0

Boeckl Saal

TU Wien
13 Karlsplatz
1040 Wien
Sophistication Conference #3: Copia and Copiousness. – Circuitous Articulations that Matter

Sebastian Michael reads excerpts from In Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam. 

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DOPPELGÄNGER

Thursday 13th June 2019; 19:30
Thursday 27th June 2019; 19:30


Galerie Spitzer im Odeon Theater
Taborstrasse 10
​
1020 Wien​
Performance as Part of Posthuman Flux (Exhibition and Discourse)

In cooperation with Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces (H.A.U.S.)

devised by Oliver Schürer based on Menschen sind Maschinen der Engel (Human Beings Are the Machines of Angels) by Jean Paul.

Inspired by Japanese Bunraku theatre: two robots and a dancer on stage. Music/sound. Text translated and recited by Sebastian Michael.

​(Performance in English)

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DOPPELGÄNGER

Friday 31st May 2019; 17:00 & 18:00
Saturday 1st June 2019; 13:00 & 14:00

Volkstheater

Arthur-Schnitzlerplatz 1
​
1070 Wien​
Performance – #digitalnatives19 Festival

In cooperation with Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces (H.A.U.S.)

devised by Oliver Schürer based on Menschen sind Maschinen der Engel (Human Beings Are the Machines of Angels) by Jean Paul.

Inspired by Japanese Bunraku theatre: two robots and a dancer on stage. Music/sound. Text translated and recited by Sebastian Michael.

(Performance in English)

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ENCOMIA OF LOVE –
​THREE AND A HALF ORATIONS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM BY PLATO


Thursday 1st November 2018; 19:30

Boeckl Saal

TU Wien
13 Karlsplatz
1040 Wien
Conference – Architekturtheorietage 2018, ​Opening Event

Sebastian Michael reads from Plato's ​Symposium

Phaedrus
Aristophanes
Agathon
The dialogue between Socrates and Agathon and the speech of Diotima of Mantinea from the oration by Socrates

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ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN

Thursday 7th December 2017; 19:00

Kuppelsaal

TU Wien
13 Karlsplatz
1040 Wien
Conference – Sophistication: Rhetorical, Geometrical and Computational Articulation

The Complete Text of De hominis dignitate by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, in the English translation by Charles Glenn Wallis
Edited and read by Sebastian Michael

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Banner image: Stephen Schreiber as Angel Alphon and James Messer as Angel Raoul in Top Story at The Old Vic Tunnels, 2013; photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou.


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