English Community Theatre Berlin
FAMILY SKELETONS, or When I Stole My Sister’s Piece of Bacon
“When I go meet my family I see a room full of me.”
Your family makes you who you are. They raise you, protect you, feed you and care for you. They’re the ghosts that haunt you throughout your whole life, whether these are demons or good spirits. First they help you sleep, then they keep you awake.
There is no such thing as a perfect family. The most basic instincts are unleashed at home. We are different animals in the confines of our four walls than we present to the outside world. (Sometimes we are fiercer and truer animals under our own roof. We are animals to the core. Or are we?)
“I smell mum's food coming from the kitchen door. I hear my brother talking on the phone in his room. I see my dad through the door. He is flipping through the Sunday newspaper, wearing his pyjamas. He always puts on his pyjamas again for his afternoon nap. I look at my suitcase, lying on the bed. I am leaving. Again. But I will always be coming back to this place.”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard Shaw
Process:
"This project is important for me; I consider it as a celebration of the family.” Lucas Demurs
During the creative process, we have been digging into our own family experiences to create a piece that reflects our interpretation of the family structure. This process has been very enjoyable. Opening the old photo boxes, reading the old diaries, trying to recall our oldest memories and interpreting them in a creative way. The prospect of sharing this part of our intimacy turned into a piece of art is highly exciting.
Every one of us was surprised how deeply emotional and touching this project has become, yet some of the scenes are both touching and comical in such a lighthearted and highly relatable way that they are extremely fun to watch.
Excerpt of what we are doing:
Different personalities crashing under the same roof, at the dinner table. And the dinner table itself, where most families usually come together, becomes witness to a kaleidoscope of comedy, drama, thrillers and suspense. Rhythms, roars, silences. Did Daddy just transform into a lion?
These conflicts make a fertile ground for us to go deeper and explore.
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ACILE IN WNOEDRLNAD - all about it HERE
If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re more than a little curious. But are you ready to take a tumble? Who knows where you’ll end up - this is Wonderland after all. We’ve all been following our own White Rabbits and we’re all simply terrified of the Queen of Hearts. Or are we? Saying what we mean is the same thing as meaning what we say, isn’t it? Mind the step or you’ll lose your mind. Enjoy the pepper, play croquet, try your best to speak the right way. Avoid the time, don’t cry when you’re sad, don’t talk to the Hatter or you’ll see that he’s mad. But you can’t help that - we’re all mad here… The day you become Alice is a very special day indeed.
“It all started long before I came here… It started all in my mind... It started with a magic spell…”
“My first impression of Wonderland was absolute freedom.”
“The first thing was the cold. Minus 14, bone chilling cold. I waited by the station watching the trains glide, almost silently along the tracks. I’d forgotten the instructions, I didn’t know what train to get and I’d worn entirely the wrong kind of shoes.”
“I first came to Wonderland with friends in 1986 when I was still in high school.”
A Berlin Summer Night's Dream
based on a play by Willy S.
In this modernized version of the Shakespearean classic, set in our beloved city of contemporary magic, the fairies are nightclub staff, the magic is ecstasy and Lysander has been transformed into Lysandra. As our "mechanicals" jostle for a shot at fame and quarreling couples attempt to make sense of love, a potion mix-up leads to a conflict of existential proportion. Had they added Puck as their facebook friend it might have saved them from the ensuing chaos.
Join us as we bring sexy back to the forest of fairies and let the love juice fly.
Directed by: Inka-Charlotte Palm
Drogengeschwängerte Nachtclubversion eines Shakespeare Klassikers.
DJane Titanias Feen bilden die Nachtclubcrew. Die magische Blume heisst Ecstasy. Aus Lysander wird Lysandra, die um Hermias Hand anhält. BSR-Männer versuchen sich als Superstars. Zwei zankende Pärchen wühlen sich durch den Berliner Club-Dschungel zur wahren Liebe. Ein Drogencocktail entpuppt sich als Augenwischer und verklärt den Blick von liebestollen Partygängern. Hätten sie sich mit Puck auf Facebook befreundet, wäre das womöglich nicht passiert.