Program
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.
‘Real artists are not nice people,’ Auden wrote. ‘All their best feelings go into their work and life has the residue.’
An evening focussed on the great 20th century poet who described himself as “looking like an unmade bed”. Love, religion, politics and wit, W. H. Auden felt passionate about them all. Introduced by New Zealand producer and scholar Chris Walshaw, and read by 3 of Berlin’s foremost professional English voices.
devised and presented by Chris Walshaw
read by Shaun Lawton, Dulcie Smart and Roger Tebb
THE EVENT
written and directed by JOHN CLANCY - performed by DAVID CALVITTO - November 2010
David Calvitto is the winner of the ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD BEST PERFORMER 2010 for THE EVENT, Edinburgh Fringe Festival Stage Best Actor 2002 for HORSE COUNTRY, Audience Favorite Award for 12 ANGRY MEN, 2003 Edinburgh Festival
A man stands in a pool of light in front of a room of suddenly silent strangers.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
(Pause.)
They watch him, waiting to hear what he will say next.
Seriously. Stop me.
BEI MIR BIST DU STRANGE
THE WINNERS of English Theatre Berlin's first ever 10-minute play competition - on the theme ENGLISH IN DAILY GERMAN LIFE were:
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
performed June 2010 - directed by Lydia Ziemke - with April Small, Melissa Holroyd, Jeffrey Mittleman, Florian Kashani and Lee Stripe
LOVEPUKE
by DUNCAN SARKIES - July 2010 and again in November 2010
directed by Fingal Pollock
with Corinne Prochaska, Amy Benson, Shaunessy Ashdown, Amy Nye, Danielle Janess, Bryan Benson, Geoff Pinfield, Börge Bruteig
produced by Laughing Lizards Productions
read the EXBERLINER review HERE
DEEP WIVES, SHALLOW ANIMALS
directed by Patrick Verschueren
with Natasha Mashkevich, Delphine Ledoux and Bruno Rochette
Music by Ilya Mashkevich
Produced by Roberto de Matos / Assistant Producer + Layout: Gunnar Jäekel
read the NEUES DEUTSCHLAND review HERE
“By dignity I mean the prospect of a terrible indecency” Howard Barker
On House arrest in her own home, once magnificent but now ravaged by a mysterious change whose the destructive impact continues to be felt, the Countess Strassa is now subject to the authority of those who, until recently, were her servants. We will never know the exact nature of the event which has produced such a change; at best can we measure the effects. The question posed by the new situation is not about the reversal of power relations – it‟s already done - but of exceeding them, that is to say the appropriation of the other, body of the other, that Howard Barker defines in bluntly erotic terms: what is required of Strassa is that she consents to be owned by the husband of her former maid. Abject perspective in the physical absence of the husband that makes the two women create a strange relationship of antipathy, rivalry, but also unexpected complicity, and gives rise to a tense dialogue, powerful, sharp as a razor, which opened excavation at the heart of the human and uncovers what makes it beat: desire, frustration, thirst for dignity.
SHORT SHRIFTS
Peter Oswald is joined by international actress Josephine Larsen to perform a series of his Short Plays back to back. Each play lasts anything from 1 - 15 minutes. Multi-instrumentalist Martin Holland accompanies them as the third voice, weaving a multi-dimensional backdrop with his compositions and atmospheric sound landscapes.
Peter's plays represent a re-discovery of the complexity of the human spirit in all its manifestations of comedy, tragedy, farce, surrealism, the grotesque and the very real. The Short Shrift company invite audiences on a spell-binding journey into 'marriage' and the ancient relationship between the masculine and the feminine.
by the visionary playwright Peter Oswald, until recently the resident playwright at the GLOBE, in London.THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS
written and performed by MATTHEW ZAJAC
with Gavin Marwick/Johnny Hardie on violin
directed by Ben Harrison / video design by Tim Reid
Produced by Dogstar Theatre (Edinburgh)
SCOTSMAN Fringe First Award 2008
Best Actor / Critics´ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2009
A story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century. His story is not straightforward. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced to work east of the Urals, then freed in an amnesty after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran, then Egypt, to be integrated into the British Army, fighting in North Africa and Italy. He was then resettled in Britain in 1948, joining his brother in Glasgow. This is the story he told.
KILL THE DOG
with Kevin Gillese und Amber Nash. directed by Dan Triandiflou
featuring
Based on SAVE THE CAT, a famous guide to Hollywood screen writing, Kevin Gillese (of RAPID FIRE fame) and Amber Nash developed a new Improv format that works with - and goofs on - the Hollywood movie formulas that you find in every other film.
Make your own blockbuster, or come and watch Kevin and Amber make one right in front of you.
More about DAD´S GARAGE at www.dadsgarage.com.
SQUATTERS
written and directed by Joshua Crone / dramaturg: Lydia Ziemke
with Leah Harounoff and Alexander Hulme
After a few drinks in a downtown bar, he takes her home to his squat - an abandoned flat in a building overlooking Ground Zero. Is this a one-night stand, or have they met before?
International theatre company Axis Mundi takes a darkly comic look at the mass hysteria that swept America and the world in the wake of the September 11th attacks, with asides on the geopolitical ramifications of bad sex, the art of tactical bed-making and the occult significance of sharing a hairbrush.
more info at www.axismundi.eu
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