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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm Katie Halper. And I'm Mary |
0:08.9 | Matt Hey everybody. Thank you for joining us. Useful idiots podcast is our website where you can support the show and get |
0:15.8 | bonus content. And Katie, you know, we're well known for being a reverent show about politics, |
0:21.6 | but we also bring people their one-stop shop for all their cultural media. a I did indeed so on Sunday I went to Lamama which is a great venue usually and I saw something called |
0:39.8 | Chernobyl Dor if it's called. |
0:43.7 | It really rolls off the tongue. |
0:44.8 | Chernobyl-Dorf. |
0:47.2 | An archaeological opera in seven novels. |
0:51.0 | And I found it a bit insufferable. |
0:54.0 | The synopsis is, after surviving a series of disasters, |
0:58.0 | the remaining descendants of humanity, |
1:00.0 | find themselves in a post-societal world |
1:02.0 | following the death of capitalism, opera, and philosophy, |
1:04.9 | wandering amongst the ruins of nuclear power plants abandoned churches, theaters, and galleries, |
1:10.1 | they try to recreate lost civilization through archaeological performance rituals, |
1:14.4 | universal symbols and signs which are ultimately misinterpreted and gradually dissolve |
1:18.9 | into the white noise of nature. |
1:21.1 | What was interesting is that at the beginning someone from the production |
1:27.6 | introduced it and mentioned that they live next to a country of a hundred million people who want to exterminate them. |
1:37.5 | And then at the end they held a an American flag and a Ukrainian flag and I missed this but the friend who I went with told me that they also held up a black and red bandarite flag. |
1:54.6 | Oh, okay. |
1:55.8 | Yeah, that Nazi collaborator, Bandarra |
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