Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else
Directed by Gijsbert van der Wal2017 1h 32mDocumentary, Comedy
6.210.0
The bigger the audiences for Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim’s shows became, the less he had to do to make them laugh. In one early show, he suggested that the audience would be better off without him. So in 2016, he acted upon this suggestion with an experiment that made theater history: he wasn't physically present onstage but somewhere else. The audience wasn't aware of this in advance, though they did get a hint in the form of a pre-recorded "live" radio interview from a remote studio. "I see my audience as my children," Wertheim says in this interview. "You have to educate them, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. At first you have to constantly be there watching them, but there comes a time when you have to trust them to get on with it without you." With some help from a robot, a printer, a stereo and a set of headphones, the members of his audience were able to make their own performance.
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Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else was released on November 19, 2017.
Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else was directed by Gijsbert van der Wal.
Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else has a runtime of 1h 32m.
Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else was produced by Helga Voets, Geert Vriend.
The bigger the audiences for Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim’s shows became, the less he had to do to make them laugh. In one early show, he suggested that the audience would be better off without him. So in 2016, he acted upon this suggestion with an experiment that made theater history: he wasn't physically present onstage but somewhere else. The audience wasn't aware of this in advance, though they did get a hint in the form of a pre-recorded "live" radio interview from a remote studio. "I see my audience as my children," Wertheim says in this interview. "You have to educate them, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. At first you have to constantly be there watching them, but there comes a time when you have to trust them to get on with it without you." With some help from a robot, a printer, a stereo and a set of headphones, the members of his audience were able to make their own performance.
The key characters in Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else are Micha Wertheim, Jellie Brouwer, Maarten van Erp.
Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else is a Documentary, Comedy film.
Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else has an audience rating of 6.2 out of 10.