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Announcing the Lineup of the 10th Expo Festival

After receiving nearly 200 submissions, the curatorial team is very pleased to invite the following productions to be part of the 10th Expo Festival from February 15 to February 29, 2024!

 

Four-Course Meal ~Hot Pot~ – A Performance by Chōri Collective

Best Funeral Ever (My Russian Funeral) – A Performance by Natasha Borenko

ExpLoRE: Cynthia – A One-Drag-King-One-Puppet-Play by Alexander Cameltoe & The Mannequins | Retina Maneuver – A Lecture-Performance by Ping-Hsiang Wang

Pleasure Incorporated – A Play by Jemima Foxtrot

ExpLoRE – Play Bow – A Dance Performance by Sami Giron Dance | Bypass Portal – A Dance Performance by Niki Yaghmaee

Girevik – An Object Theater Performance by Roman Škadra

ExpLoRE: Tricks for Gold (T4$) – A Performance by Frida G. Franceschini | No Home – A Mockumentary Performance by Yael Esther Mor

InnerVoice-dot-ru – A Documentary Dance Performance by Masha Sapizhak

Æffective Choreography – A Dance Performance by André Uerba

Good Night – A Multimedia Installation For Not Falling Asleep by PRAGMATA

Opportunity Alert! FREE Adaptation Workshop with Vincent Murphy (November 24)

Take part in Vincent Murphy’s workshop on theatrical adaptation for free!

November 24, 2023 from 10am to 2pm

Places are limited to ten participants and people who are interested must register in advance by sending an email to Vincent Murphy at vmurphy50@gmail.com

Vincent Murphy and his wife Petra Milde have recently decided to live half time in New York City and the other half in Berlin. Vinnie would like to get to know people in the arts and theater community in Berlin so he’s offering his internationally recognized workshop on adaptation to anyone who is interested in theater or the arts. His workshop is based on his groundbreaking book Page to Stage. He will be giving a short piece for members of the workshop to adapt mostly in small groups, enjoying a process of discovery and how the structure of a play works. If you have material, you’re interested in adapting he will leave some time at the end of the workshop to do some brainstorming,

The workshop is informative, fun and engaging. You can look at the complete brochure for quotes from companies and individuals around the United States, Canada and Europe that have taken the workshop in the past. Although you would have a deeper grasp of the work if you get the book from Amazon or The University of Michigan Press, Vinnie will email you the first chapter which is all you need to read for the workshop.

Recommendation from ‐‑Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner for Best Play:

Vincent Murphy has of course run the very successful Brave New Works series of new play development at Theater Emory in Atlanta for many years, working with some of the best known and most successful playwrights in America, as well as being a much sought after director and an extremely popular teacher.

To all these credits, he now adds author, and the theatrical world is much the richer for it. Murphy has written an extremely useful guide for anyone – professional, non-­‐‑professional, student, teacher – who is interested in the process of theatrical adaptation.

In precise, clear prose, which is both lucid and enjoyable, Murphy outlines his ʺsix building blocks”structured approach which takes the reader from how to choose literary material to bringing their finished script to life.

Despite the enormous popularity of theatrical adaptation across the world, I have never seen anyone attempt to codify the process, and Murphyʹs short, entertaining volume fills a much-needed gap. I cannot recommend it enough.”

Financing Secured for the 10th Expo Festival in February 2024!

We are very pleased to announce that funding has been secured for the 10th edition of our annual Expo Festival: A Showcase of Wahlberliner*innen! The festival will take place in February 2024 and an open call for productions will be published in September 2023!

You can read more HERE!

We are looking for a theatre piano!

We are looking for a piano! Our old instrument – some of you might have seen it in our foyer – finally “gave up its spirit”, to use a lovely German phrase.
The theatre requires a functional instrument that can be used in upcoming productions.
If you, or anyone you know, has a piano they would like to donate, please contact us at art@etberlin.de.
We will give it a very good home.

Konzeptförderung! ETB | IPAC Recommended for Berlin’s Highest Level of Funding

English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center is one of two theaters to be recommended as a new addition to the four-year Konzeptförderung program for producing institutions from 2024 to 2027 of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

To quote the written recommendation:
“The panel of experts is convinced that English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center is an essential performance venue for Berliners and international independent groups and individual artists that urgently needs better financing. Inclusion within the Konzeptförderung program would go a long way as well to safeguarding an additional performance venue that is urgently needed in Berlin.”

“With this amount, English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center will begin to approach being adequately financed and be able to operate much more sustainably. This recognition of our many years of hard work through the recommendation means a great deal for the institution”, said the leadership of ETB | IPAC, Daniel Brunet, Günther Grosser and Bernd Hoffmeister. This new level of funding will nearly triple the operating budget of the institution.

You can find the complete report of the expert panel HERE and read our press release right HERE