Note: The show is free of charge, with a max capacity of 30 people.
Registration: megarich@blackbox.no (only one registration per person). First come, first served, the 30 lucky ones will receive an invitation by email.
Struggling with finances? Can’t pay your gas and electricity bills? Or for your groceries? The rent? The mortgage?
With MEGA RICH COMPANY’s MONEY-GIVEAWAY SHOW, the Norwegian economy gets a much-needed injection that may help selected Norwegians through the financial crisis.
Do you want to be the lucky holder of 39.000 Norwegian kroner? There are only five rules you need to follow. How much are you worth?
“We find ourselves in an economic situation that is unsustainable for ordinary Norwegians. Inflation is at an unprecedentedly high level, taxes are rising, prizes are increasing. Meanwhile, MEGA RICH COMPANY has had a historically good financial year”, says Sigrid Johannesen. Ida Grarup adds: “Therefore, we at MEGA RICH COMPANY have decided to give away 39.000 NOK in cash. It’s the least we can do.”
In MEGA RICH COMPANY’s The big MONEY GIVEAWAY-SHOW, MEGA RICH COMPANY presents the audience with the opportunity of dividing 39.000 NOK between them through a fixed set of five rules.
The audience are given an hour and a half, and the rules are as follows:
- No one may receive the same amount unless the amount is 0 NOK
- All amounts must be divisible by 100 NOK
- All the money must be distributed among the audience
- The money must not be received on behalf of others
- The distribution is approved by a 2/3 majority
Through this social experiment we strive to mirror the way money is being distributed in modern, western democracies and place our audience in a microcosmos of the dilemmas and conflicts of interest that our politicians are facing.
During the performance a host will facilitate the debate between the members of the audience as well as the hands-on distribution of the money, and a financial expert will through sound clips provide the audience with appropriate knowledge to qualify their choice of how to distribute the money.
MEGA RICH COMPANY is a performing arts collective disguised as a corporate company, founded in 2021 by Ida Grarup and Sigrid Johannesen, that investigates our relationship with finance in the modern world.
“With MEGA RICH COMPANY we aim to break free from economic mediocrity. When we look at the world and the future ahead, we see only one solution to survive future pandemics, wars, and the climate crisis: One must be rich. Very rich. Therefore, we have established a company that can make us wealthy and ensure the survival of the capitalistic societies in the upcoming crises through innovative economic strategies.”
MEGA RICH COMPANY works artistically and activistically, using theatrical tools to examine the emerging wave of entrepreneurship in our society – and uncover how hidden economic logics affect our society and democracy.
