Program
SUMMER AND SMOKE
Directed by Blake Robison
With Carrie Getman, Seumas Sargent, Andrea Pani Laura, Tasha Wenger, Jeffrey Mittleman, Ciara Goss and Steffen Mennekes
Set and Costumes by Tomas Fitzpatrick | Lights: Katri Kuusimäki | Sound Design: Matthew Nielson / Show photographs: Christian Jungeblodt
Watch a clip from the show HERE !
They were two ill-starred lovers: a minister´s shy, sensitive daughter and a wildly passionate, carefree young doctor. One hungered for the spirit, the other hungered for the flesh…
Alma: There are some women who turn a possibly beautiful thing into something no better than the coupling of beasts - but love is what you bring to it. Some people bring just their bodies. But there are some people, there are some women, John who can bring their hearts to it, also - who can bring their souls to it!
John: Souls again, huh – those gothic cathedrals you dream of. Your name is Alma and Alma is Spanish for soul. Some time I´d like to show you a chart of the human anatomy that I have in my office. It shows what your insides are like, and maybe you can show me where the beautiful soul is located on the chart.
A BERLIN SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
based on a play by Willy S.
THE VIRGINIA MONOLOGUES
by VIRGINIA IRONSIDE
April 2011
Virginia Ironside explains that unlimited free drugs, boring for Britain, fun funerals, grandchildren and sex – or, even better, no sex – make the sixties the best – and funniest - time of your life…”
Directed by Nigel Planer, the show premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2009.
Virginia Ironside is the bestselling author of several books. The latest one is THE VIRGINIA MONOLOGUES
Read all about Virginia Ironside HERE
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!
On Saturday March 26th 2011 after the IMPROV FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE´s show 
we will hold a SCREAMING STELLA CONTEST based on MARLON BRANDO´s famous scream from the movie made after Tennessee Williams´ classic play "A Streetcar Named Desire".
Come and scream your heart out for Stella - or for her husband Stanley - and win two tickets for our production of Tennessee Williams´ SUMMER AND SMOKE (in May) plus a surprise gift!
Hosted by Priscilla Be.
HOW I MANAGED TO DESTROY MY LIFE
by RON WEISSMANN and STEFFEN MODDROW
March 2011
A clown's bizarre emotional game - a shrewd and brutal exchange of blows between Ron Weissmann who, like an emotional chameleon, reflects our emotional patterns in a diverse and grotesque way, and the drummer Steffen Moddrow, who uses his instruments in a very unconventional way, in order to produce amazing sounds.
Steffen is confronted by an emotional chaotic guy who is trying to disturb his exciting sound experiments. Will the artist be able to regain peace on stage?
FESTIVAL "IMPRO 2011"
March 21 - 26 2011
Europe´s largest festival for Improv Theatre celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Gorillas have produced special material for the event, focusing on the styles of selected playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Georg Büchner, Eugene Ionesco and George F. Walker.
MARCH 21 + 22: CRUMBS feat. DJ HUNNICUTT - the Masters of satire present their play in the style of contemporary Canadian playwright, George F. Walker - which will not be so different from their usual work. Walker is known for his use of dark humor, satirical interpretations of society, and his pop culture references.
MARCH 23: UNEXPECTED PRODUCTIONS will dig deep into the stylish world of American playwright Tennessee Williams.
MARCH 25 + 26: THE FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE will be honoring the 100th birthday of Tennessee Williams and come up with an improvised play inspired by works such as "The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof" and "A Streetcar Named Desire".
The official festival website HERE.
AN EXPERIMENT WITH AN AIR PUMP
by SHELAGH STEPHENSON 8 - 27 February 2011
A social drama, a science play, a thriller
Something revolutionary is happening at the Fenwicks’, while there’s trouble in the air at Ellen and Tom’s. Fenwick is taking science to dizzying heights, his assistant is after the maid and a mob is rioting at the front door. Ellen, a geneticist, has moral qualms about a job offer and Tom is unemployed. The Fenwicks are living in 1799, Ellen and Tom in 1999 – in the same house. There’s a body in the basement. Who buried it there 200 years ago?
Shelagh Stephenson explores the question of how much morality science can take – and how much it needs – with two compelling examples from two different times in history. To what lengths should the study of anatomy go to procure cadavers at the end of the 18th century? And how far should genetics go at the beginning of the 21st century?
The performances on February 15th and 22nd start at 7pm and will be followed by a discussion with cast, director and Prof. Hengge.
Read THE LOCAL ´s review and DER TAGESSPIEGEL (Feb 8th 2011) about the project and the play.
What is good and what is evil science? Shelagh Stephenson projects this question further back in time than most do. Academic debate on the ethical limits to scientific research often focuses on the atomic bomb and unscrupulous Nazi researchers. However, the long period in which body snatching was commonplace for the study of anatomy goes back 150 years before then and is a dark chapter in the history of colonial England between Newton and Darwin.
pics: Christian Jungeblodt
Directed by Günther Grosser
With Richard Penny, Julie Trappett, Tomas Spencer, Lee Stripe, Ciara Goss, Carolyn Walsh and Elisabet Johannesdottir
Set: Tomas Fitzpatrick | Costumes: Ilaria Di Carlo | Light Design: Katri Kuusimäki | Dramaturg: Triona Humphries | Stage Management: Ruby Grosser
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Regine Hengge (Institute for Biology/Microbiology, Freie Universität Berlin)
---- all about our Science & Theatre programm HERE ------
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LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
by BRIDGE MARKLAND and NIKOLA LUTZ - June 2010 and March 2011
Be fed with grapes and bananas. Be astounded about sensational gender transformation acts.
Pic: Daniela Incoronata
DAVID VANN
reads from his multi-award winning novel SUKKWAN ISLAND (Im Schatten des Vaters) - February 21 2011
BORIS ALJINOVIC liest aus der deutschen Übersetzung IM SCHATTEN DES VATERS
On a wild island in southern Alaska, accessible only by boat or seaplane, Jim moves to a remote cabin with his thirteen-year-old son Roy to spend a year together living off the land. Jim hopes the year will give him a chance to make a fresh start after a series of personal failures, as well as enabling him to reconnect with the son he barely knows. But he is completely unprepared for life in the wilderness, and as the weeks pass, circumstances quickly deteriorate, and Roy soon begins to fear that everything will end badly.
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI / IMMIGRANT XMAS
based on a short story by O. Henry
music by David Conte / libretto by Nicholas Giardini
directed by Anke Rauthmann / musical direction & piano: Kanako Nakagawa / set: Robert Pflanz / film: Ahmet Golbol
with Lauren Lee, Tanja Simic Queiroz, Andrew Young, Christian Michael Newman, Remo Tobiaz, Tobias Hagge
read the reviews in BERLINER ZEITUNG , TAGESSPIEGEL and NEUE MUSIKZEITUNG
La Bohème in New York 1910 and Berlin 2010 - two metropolitan cities in different eras, both the focus of immigration of young people, who left their home to find a better life.
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