Hotel Tranquille
12 June 2040 starts as just another day at Hotel Tranquille. The staff Jessie, Felix, and Anna are waiting for instructions on their tasks for the day from the hotel’s AI supervisor PAL, three teens Marc, Stella, and Adrien are sitting in the lobby, fully immersed into their virtual life on the SimPlanet, 70-year-old Justiine is in her room enjoying an anniversary with her late husband Rohit as their 30 year old selves, and the NeuraTalk regional representative Derin is going over documentation about PAL’s latest system upgrade in the hotel gardens.
That is until PAL informs everyone of a virus attack targeting their brain chips and that Hotel Tranquille needs to go into quarantine with no connection to virtual life and communication!
With colorful characters, their avatars in the virtual world, the hotel’s AI supervisor PAL, and plenty of chaos, Hotel Tranquille is a play that addresses the impact of technology in our daily lives and what it means to be “human” in a fun way.
Tickets and Dates
We performed Hotel Tranquille on 15 and 16 June 2024 in De Lindenberg, Nijmegen. Next up is September in GIGANT Apeldoorn. Tickets are available below!
Inspired by the Arctic Monkeys album
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a 2018 album from the band Arctic Monkeys. It has a jazz lounge sound and science fiction themed lyrics that make a perfect blend of nostalgia and futurism.
About the Play
Hotel Tranquille is an original play initially co-written by Tulya Kavaklioglu and Anssi Kemppainen, now re-written by Tulya, and directed by Pompadó ZR Martha. The short script ‘Hotel Tranquille’ was originally created for WOW-EFFECT’s 2040 project, which depicted our interpretation of society in the year 2040 in the form of three short plays. This project was instigated and unfortunately put on hold at the brink of the COVID-19 pandemic. These last seasons, we’ve been given the opportunity to instead expand on these imagined futures by producing a short-film for Human.V.oid (2022) and bring Full Consent to stage (2023).
The Crew
Director | Pompadó ZR Martha |
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Writers | Tulya Kavaklioglu, Anssi Kemppainen (re-written by Tulya) |
Producer | Tulya Kavaklioglu |
Production Assistants | Remco Somers, Piyush Sharma |
Decor and Props | Remco Somers, Joachim Fusiecki, Asima Abidi |
Costume, Hair and Makeup | Maria Kinast, Rob Cuperus |
Technique and Multimedia | Johan Jans, Monishaa Mirchandani |
Marketing | Candela Peño Gomez, Tulya Kavaklioglu, Piyush Sharma, Alex Braeken, Monishaa Mirchandani |
The Cast
Also thanks to the original cast and crew of Hotel Tranquille as part of the “2040” production, who were not given the chance to complete the project due to restrictions against the spread of coronavirus disease.
PRODUCERS Tulya Kavaklioglu, Céline Thomas. DIRECTOR Carmen Vazquez. CO-DIRECTORS Tjitse Wolf, Puk Speckens. PLAYWRIGHTS Tulya Kavaklioglu, Anssi Kemppainen. SCRIPT EDITORS Alexandra Granberg, Coco Clements. SUPERVISORY DIRECTOR AND EDITOR Esther O’toole. DÉCOR AND PROPS Céline Thomas, Coco Clements, Anssi Kemppainen, Carmen Vazquez, Clara Maine, Marion Ducreux, Sofie Vriends. COSTUMES Puk Speckens, Carmen Vazquez, Piyush Sharma. HAIR AND MAKEUP Puk Speckens, Bianca Weiland, Melissa Craggs. TECHNIQUE Tulya Kavaklioglu, Anssi Kemppainen, Piyush Sharma. MULTIMEDIA Devansh Gupta, Clara Maine, Piyush Sharma, Coco Clements, Céline Thomas, Alexandra Granberg, Stefan Riegl. STAGE MANAGER Jasmijn Wellner. MARKETING Tulya Kavaklioglu, Piyush Sharma, Céline Thomas.
PAL Puk Speckens. DERIN Céline Thomas. DERIN’S AVATAR Carmen Vazquez. JESSIE Melissa Craggs. JESSIE’S AVATAR Daniela Zimmermann. FELIX Piyush Sharma. FELIX’S AVATAR Alex. ANNA Sofie Vriends. ANNA’S AVATAR Marion Ducreux. JUSTIINE Sarah Fünke. JUSTIINE’S AVATAR Puk Speckens. ROHIT Anssi Kemppainen. STELLA Clara Maine. STELLA’S AVATAR Jasmijn Wellner. ADRIEN Thomas Draper. ADRIEN’S AVATAR Bianca Weiland. MARC Tulya Kavaklioglu. MARC’S AVATAR Tjitse Wolf.