"Tonight, we won´t be playing for your money. Tonight, we will play with your money."

DEAD CAT BOUNCE is a stock market performance. It is a theatre piece about money, international cash flow, power, companies, speculation, greed and fear – and, at the same time, distinctively more than that: DCB is not only about the market, DCB is actually playing the market.

In each performance we take the box office of that very night and invest it for 90 minutes via an e-brokerage account at the London Stock Exchange. Our goal is to make, during the show, a profit one percent. If we do, we share the winnings with the audience (it is their money, after all). If we don´t, we act like anybody else and call it bad luck or fate and send everybody home hungry.

DCB is a live performance that totally relies on and works with real time information. The same charts and graphs that professional traders are using surround us on stage. While mixing video, music, stories and internet surfaces, the rhythm of the show is given by the fluctuation of prices on the stock exchange that very evening. The performance of the stocks, the drama of the market defines the dramaturgy on stage.

Two actors, three tec-performers constantly connected to the internet, and a musician welcome and guide the audience through the evening. While we buy and sell stocks, we explain and lay open the mechanisms of the market. We research share holding companies on the internet, share our information, let greed and fear guide us. We invite the spectators to get involved, make decisions, take chances. Buy, sell, hold. How do you make money? How do you make more money? How do you realize when to get out so others deal with the crash? And how come you are having such fun doing this?