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the coldharts
SILVER HAMMER
A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF MASS PSYCHOSIS.
An auto-biographical horror-fiction concerning disinformation, non-linear warfare, arson, troll-farms, Russian oligarchs, psychic attacks, Tik Tok, and our ever-eroding sense of what is true and what is false.
Created & performed by
NICK RYAN
‘This play was meant to premiere on May 29th, 2020. The title I submitted on the festival application the previous November was “Vladimir Putin Wants Me Dead,” though I sincerely hoped I would come up with a better one. The concept was to explore the work of Vladislav Surkov. Surkov has functioned as Russia’s effective Minister of Propaganda since Putin came to power. He is said to have engineered the Ukrainian Civil War. He is said to have orchestrated the world-wide online disinformation epidemic… and his background is in avant-garde theater.’
‘Thought provoking, very funny, and you are left, as he indicated could happen, wondering what of what proceeded is true.’
-Stages of Minnesota
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