Lab
MADE IN BERLIN / New Work From New People
February 14, 2013
An Evening of Excerpts From New Plays by Jeremiah Bartram, Stuart Caldwell, Natassa Sideri and Kim Yaged
Featuring Joe Cooper, Tom Pawlak, Eleot Reich, Leila Rozario, Ariadna Pastor Sanegre and Jon Smith, with stage directions by Harvey Rabbit
Dramaturgy by Annie Womack / Directed by Joseph Wegmann
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming.
PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
by Alexander Adams - with Monica Solem, Alexander Thomas, and Shaleah Dancy
ERASE THE DAY WE MET
An Interpretive Reading: Pauline Peyrade (writer) / Ioli Andreadi (director) / Michael Tuttle (composer)
with Daniel Kahn, Annie Last, Michael Norton, Vera Jane Schwenk and Susanne Stern.
The Lab: CINDERS
LAB reading of a new play by Neil Bristow
May 20 2012
with Annie Last, Peter Gilbert Cotton, Glen Sheppard - directed by Franziska Marie Gramss
Richard receives a call from Sophie, the wife of his brother Eddie, to tell him that his parents died in a fire several months ago – they just didn’t get round to informing him until now! Flying in to England from the USA, he spends a weekend in Eddie and Sophie’s odd new house, with its host of empty rooms. A murky world emerges where nothing is quite what it seems: alliances shift, old resentments emerge and new constellations form. And yet from out of the destructive flames that bring the three together a new light emerges, one that both hints at a way forward, but could also contain the fulfilment of the darkest secret of all.
MOLLY EYRE
ETERNA SONRISA
by Kim Yaged - with Steve Jacobs, Lee Stripe, Daniel Scheimberg, Tancredi Volpert, Sabrina Ellenberger, Angus McGruther, Jessica Taylor and Leila Hassan
Romy Coto is a pop art sensation whose work is all the buzz in the NYC art scene. When the NYPD makes a connection between a murder scene and her art, is it a coincidence, an obsessed fan or something more sinister? Eterna Sonrisa is a thriller that uses multi-media to examine society’s obsession with celebrity, especially through the eyes and experiences of women.
PLAYERS AND PUPPETS
by Geoffrey Samuels - read by Steve Ellery, Cornelia Brelowski and Clayton Nemrow
Barbara wants to be alone after yet another failed relationship. She retreats to a friend's empty apartment on the North Fork, Long Island to regain her balance. The last person she wants to see is a man, but her emotional recovery plans are upset when Shepp, an artist, unexpectedly arrives at her door.
CLAIRITY FAILS
ONE WAY
by Michael Müller
Around 600 B.C.E, Lao Tzu, a Chinese Taoist Philosopher, said that if you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading. Or perhaps if we continue to believe that we can change direction, we will end up where we are going? Mina is 35 and no longer shares this belief with her husband, Jack. She leaves and goes on a journey north. Jack follows her. Mina’s decision also influences Dave, Jack’s therapist, and his younger wife Nina. Twenty-eight years later, a man named Tom tries to figure out the truth to what happened with all of them.
After finishing his studies in Literature in New York City, Austrian playwright Michael Müller received his MA in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College in London.
MINUTE GAINS
TRICKS OF THE TRADE
VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS
by Geoffrey Samuels - with Frederick Johntz, Stephen Jacob, Stefankai Spoerlein, Errol Trotman Harewood, Cornelia Brelowski, Peter Chefalo.
VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS is a political play about the press, history, and contemporary American values; it invites the audience to consider how we often repeat patterns from the past. Set in 1985, a magazine publisher launches an expensive subscription campaign that backfires. A banker acquaintance offers to rescue the magazine if he drops a politically sensitive investigation. As the publisher wrestles whether to compromise his editorial principles, unexpected visitors arrive to test his resolve and priorities.
An American business writer based in Berlin, Geoffrey Samuels graduated from Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
DIRTYLAND
by Elise Hearst - with Esther Reich, Angus McGruther, Brian Loughnane, Corey Shank, Krisana Locke, Alan Dixon
DIRTYLAND is an apocalyptic piece by Australian playwright Elise Hearst about a community in rural Australia where one part of the population has murdered another. Some of the young adult survivors are looking for a way to escape to the city and the past that haunts the town. The problem is that no one will have them knowingly, and the only person who can sneak them out of town is demanding a rather odd form of payment.
MONKEYSHINES
TWISTED
QUINN
an informal reading of a new play-in-progress by Joy Cutler
Read by the Hungry Blue Bird Collective, Dargelos Kersten, Ruby Grosser, Sarah Lewis, and Priscilla Be
THE GUARDIANS
by Chris Walshaw - with Laura Cameron, Anne Chamberlain, Shaun Lawton, and Peter Gilbert Cotton.
Who should T.S. Eliot, the Nobel Prize winning poet, appoint as guardian of his works? His old and faithful friends, or a young woman who would be sure to protect his legacy many years after his death?
FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
a two-act play exploring the complicated paradoxical ways in which men interact with each other.
ONE FLEW EAST
by Michael Haeflinger, based on the short story "One Flew East, One Flew West" by Bryan McMillan
HEALING FROM PRACTICE
written and directed by Brian Fennelly - with Nickolai Todorov, Frank Brückner, and Eneko Sanz
BLACK-EYED SUSANNA
GLASS HOUSE
written and directed by Katalina Mustatea - Composer: Wolf-Christian Ulrich
OTHERS WITHIN
by Alexander Thomas - A new play exploring the lives of Blacks living in Nazi Germany
to find out more about the play go to Alexander Thomas´ homepage
EDEN
written by Marina Shron - A staged reading directed by Günther Grosser
with Laura Cameron, Jeffrey Mittleman, Katie Mullins and Tomas Spencer
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