Program
DARK
a one-man play written and directed by S. D. CLIFFORD
10 - 14 January 2012
performed by Pedro Malacas
presented by Movement Productions
Here is Terry, an obsessive-compulsive depressive with a fear of light. In order to cope with the terror of everyday life, he forces himself to stay in an almost constant self-induced psychosis, maintaining only impersonal, superficial relationships with inanimate objects like his boots and radio. Terry's world comes crashing down when out of the blue he is informed that he is to be executed immediately. He is also ordered to organize it himself. This includes the execution, the funeral and paying off his outstanding debts. ...
But there is nothing to fear. There never has been.
LADY LAY
a new play by LYDIA STRYK
WORLD PREMIERE - Lady Lay first opened at English Theatre Berlin on November 22nd 2011
"I´ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
Marianne has worked at the Berliner Arbeitsamt all her life and then she hears Bob Dylan on the radio and the Wall falls down. Lady Lay takes a joy ride through life’s rules and regulations. But what is freedom? And can Bob Dylan take you there?
Marianne has worked at the Berliner Arbeitsamt all her life. Then she hears Bob Dylan on the radio and the Wall falls down. Although she can hardly understand the words, she takes a journey—both joyful and terrifying—into Dylan’s world, putting her very existence in jeopardy.
"There must be some way out of here ..."
Lady Lay takes a joy ride through life’s rules and regulations. But what is freedom? And can Bob Dylan take you there?
with Sylvia Schwarz, Antje Westermann, Steffen Mennekes, Frederick Johntz and Joe Czarnecki
Directed by Günther Grosser
Set and Costumes by Tomás Fitzpatrick / Lights by Katri Kuusimäki / Photos by Christian Jungeblodt
BLOOD OF THE BUTTERFLY
Have you had your fill of world chaos, catastrophe and media overkill? No? Good! Neither have we. So here it comes...
pic: Dr. Zytztz, clearly
Created and performed by Berlin International Youth Theatre
A science fiction fantasy where separate worlds become entangled in a web of greed.
Dr. Zytztz, a brilliant scientist , dies leaving his daughter with the secret of "The Blood of the Butterfly". What she does with this secret ends up affecting the population of an entire galaxy.
With dazzling effects, weird and bizarre rituals, ancient grudges, wizards of science, rebels without a clue, and high tech disaster, this astonishing epic play will open windows in your mind that you might prefer remain closed.
POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR
Picador-Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig 
will read from her works
TERMINAL CONNECTIONS - THE AIRPORT PLAYS
Lives in transition in the contained and suspended world of an airport setting
directed by Ali von Stein 14 - 18 September 2011
with Peter Romero, Attila Oener, Christine Utterberg, Ingrid Fraley, Summer Banks, Ali von Stein, Pedro Malacas, Louise Watts, Glenn Conroy, Lacey Haynes, Angus McGruther, Carrie Getman and David Masterson
presented by PLAY2C (Berlin)
More than a dozen characters are weaving their way into each other over the course of a series of meaningful departures, layovers or arrivals. In these slices of destiny we travel from suspicion to attraction, fear to trust, alienation to connection and stress to love.
read more about PLAY2C here.
THE MAN OF SHADOWS
written by Guenther Primig / directed by Darren Robert Smith - 2011
performed by Darren Robert Smith and Ciara Gos
Earliest memory ... earliest memory ... let´s see ... Fear ... naturally.
The Man of Shadows is a darkly humorous play that tells the story of Val Arkam jr, a faded Hollywood horror star, and his encounter with young Laura Starling, a talented journalist and daughter of the film critic that originally named him "The Man of Shadows". It was the name that launched a dramatic career as dark, gothic and outright frightening off-screen as on. - In a last bid for fame and validation Arkam conjures a lost world of old Hollywood horror, and Laura finally confronts "the old darkness" she lost her farther to long ago. And in the end, of course, a terrible secret is revealed that will change Laura´s life forever...
SHORT SHRIFTS
directed by Tim Carroll 11 - 15 October 2011
with Peter Oswald, Josephine Larsen and Martin Holland
.... beautiful, grotesque, absurd, interwoven with a surreal soundscape of live music .... The audience is invited on a journey of surprising twists and turns ...
TALKING HEADS
by Alan Bennett
directed by Günther Grosser ENGLISH THEATRE BERLIN´s production opened on June 19th 2009
with Kim Eustice, Monica Solem, Jesse Inman
Set and Costumes: Tomas Fitzpatrick / Roland Ascheid - Lights: Katri Kuusimäki - Video: Dargelos Kersten - Sound: Torsten Litschko
MY ROMANTIC HISTORY
Germany Premiere of a brand new comedy about a problem as old as time by D C JACKSON
August/September 2011
directed by Jude Christian / with Lorna Jones, Pip Swallow and Chris Davis / set and costume design by Laurin Kelsey / light design by Katri Kuusimäki / image by Anna Clark
Check out three reviews at EXBERLINER and BANGBANGBERLIN and on ARTIBERLIN.DE !
“I suppose there comes a point when you have to face that you’re just ‘that age’ and that if you’ve got a man who isn’t a retard, a rapist or a Rangers supporter then he’s probably about the best you’re going to get.”
My Romantic History by D C Jackson takes a sharp, hilarious and affectionate look at modern relationships and the rocky road to true love. Office colleagues Tom and Amy´s drunken one-night stand seems to be morphing into a full-blown relationship before their very eyes, but before they can face the future, they’ll have to deal with the ghosts of relationships past…
“The genius of this play is that it acknowledges the ambivalence of postmodern sexual lives - the lack of commitment, the coldness, the sense that reality never quite measures up to some plastic ideal - while simultaneously overcoming all that with the wit, the humanity, the ability to laugh, learn, and move on, that is the real redeeming quality of our species. Jackson's clear-eyed but brilliant comic invention is a joy, as is his inimitable way with words.” The Scotsman
Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010 - now in a new production by English Theatre Berlin.
First produced by The Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 5th August 2010 at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh.
A NUMBER
by CARYL CHURCHILL - 2010 /11
with Patrick Lanagan 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)
A man uses his money to commission a clone: his contractors seize their chance to create twenty more. The talk is of paternal love, and of science, and of good intentions. But who will have to live with the consequences? And who will have to die?
"A taut, chilling two-man work about a desperate father who seeks to duplicate his lost son" - "enormously powerful" - "outstandingly well acted and staged" - "real and truthful in every moment" - "a maelstrom of deep, dark emotions laced with subtle sarcasm and ending with a hint of hope" - "an absolute must-see" - "Science&Theatre, a successful coproduction" (from the reviews in ExBerliner, Die Zeit Online, Neues Deutschland)
read the full reviews plus some comments on SCIENCE&THEATRE here
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