directed by Fingal Pollock

with David Deery, Corinne Prochaska, Martin Ware, Amy Benson, Shaunessy Ashdown, Amy Nye, Dharmander Singh and Danielle Janess

Ulysses Jewels (film clips at 8pm) / Performance Stew & Stout (at 9.30) / "Stattlich und feist" Readings from "Ulysses" (from 10pm)

 with Inga Dietrich, Timo Sturm, Mathias Eysen, Uta Bonz, Bernd Ludwig, Juliane Gabriel, Tomas Fitzpatrick, Gisela Jürcke, Eva Schöngut, Luzi, Vincent Lindig, Victor Manasse, Alexander Manasse, Julia Lindig plus all those sinners that we forgot ...

in German and English

supported by GUINNESS, JAMESON, THE IRISH EMBASSY

Playwriting Competition for Ten-Minute Plays

THE WINNERS of English Theatre Berlin's first ever 10-minute play competition, this season on the theme ENGLISH IN DAILY GERMAN LIFE:

In Other Words by Joshua Crone / The Exam by Joshua S. Horowitz / Ten Minutes with Günther by Sonny Hayes / Bombay an der Spree by Kevin McAleer/ Hooray for Hollywood by Rich Rubin

pic: Heiko Orlowski

and Tomas S. Spencer 

Directed by Günther Grosser 

Set and Costumes: Tomas Fitzpatrick / Light Design: Katri Kuusimäki

Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge (Freie Universität Berlin)

So what would that be like: You walk down the street and run into yourself. And if that guy over there is me, who am I then? What makes me an individual? And who are these other, these other….beings. Are they me all over again? And what does it feel like to find out that the man you call “father”  has simply commissioned you? And what happens to all those, those …  beings that aren´t perfect so nobody wants them? Dump them?

Human Cloning. Ask your father the right questions.

directed by Franny Armstrong

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars in the climate blockbuster from McLibel director Franny Armstrong as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

A co-production of ENGLISH THEATRE BERLIN and  7 STAGES THEATER, Atlanta (GA)

directed by Veronika Nowag-Jones

Musical Direction by Errol T. Harewood

with Del Hamilton, Faye Allen, Tomas Spencer, Jeffrey Mittleman, Harvey Friedman, April Small and Errol  T. Harewood

Set and Costumes by Tomas Fitzpatrick

Lights by Katri Kuusimäki

PULITZER PRIZE FOR BEST DRAMA 

Read the TAGESSPIEGEL review HERE - the NEUES DEUTSCHLAND review you´ll find HERE.

BURIED CHILD is a macabre look at an American Midwestern family with a dark, terrible secret. The father stopped planting crops in his fields and took to smoking, drinking and watching TV. His wife, apparently seeking salvation, turned to religion. Her son went insane with guilt and grief, spent time in jail and only recently returned to the farm, perhaps to set everything right. With the arrival of the estranged grandson and his girlfriend, Shelly, the secret is drawn out into the light of day, and the family curse apparently lifted...

Here is an excellent piece about Sam Shepard from the New Yorker, Feb 8 2010 plus a brandnew interview with him from the Guardian, March 21 here.

Pic: David Baltzer