Half past eight. This is the average time Thomas Wiesel spends each day in front of a screen. The equivalent of a full time spent scrolling, posting, swiping. A permanent click. Enough to push the comedian to do his little digital introspection… and ours with it. Three years later Thomas Wiesel works, in which he dissected our professional neuroses, the Vaudois tackles another subject that could be described as highly concerning: our collective addiction to machines.
In Screens Company, his new show which is currently sold out in Lausanne, before embarking on a major French-speaking tour next month, no tutorial for tax evaders. Thomas Wiesel clarifies it straight away, deadpan: if it bears the name of these fictitious companies masking illegal transactions, its only-on-stage speaks well of our ultra-connected world – where smartphones are kings and our evenings, sucked in by the vortex of the internet. Thomas Wiesel knows something about it, he who surveys it for ultra-methodical press reviews, watching sports videos… and pallet truck competitions. We knew he was addicted to news, not hydraulic lifting handling equipment…
