off-site performance with limited seating!
ruckzuck – cupcakes & time travel | skalitzer strasse 133, Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Performance in English and German
August 27 (World Premiere) – 30, 2015 | 8pm
September 3 – 6, 10 – 12, 2015 | 8pm
Ruckzuck Concept Store Business Hours
August 28 – 30, 2015 | 3 – 7pm
September 3 – 6, 10 – 12, 2015 | 3 – 7pm
The project focuses on the processes of urban development using the Back to the Future movie trilogy as its point of departure.
In Back to the Future, Part II, the teenager Marty McFly travels to the future in a souped-up sports car and lands in 2015. There not only does Marty encounter holograms, hoverboards and his thirty-year older self; the city of Hill Valley is also wholly transformed.
The real 2015 may not look so futuristic, but cities have still changed immensely. Some neighborhoods have become impoverished while others have appreciated tremendously in value. And some impoverished neighborhoods are experiencing this appreciation right now.
First come the artists and studios, followed by the students and the cupcake cafés and then the well-to-do and boutiques. And this process takes place over increasingly shorter periods of time.
copy & waste intends to open a fictional store, a concept store: Ruckzuck – Cupcakes & Time Travel. Here customers can enjoy cupcakes and cappuccino in a Back to the Future ambiance – during the day. At night, the store also offers time travel. Like Marty McFly, the visitors can travel to the past or dash to the future to prevent certain things from happening – or from not happening.
The basic question in all of this is: what kind of city do we want to live in?
Featuring a post-performance discussion on Friday, September 4 as part of Theater Scoutings Berlin!
The project Knick-Knack to the Future | Ruckzuck in die Zukunft is a co-production of the art collective copy & waste and English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center. This project is funded by Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten and by the Konzeptionsförderung of Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. – aus Mitteln des Bundes as well as the festival steirischer herbst Graz and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.
He doesn´t know a thing about art. But being a former bouncer, Dave gets hired to guard a controversial piece of art. “Jesus on the Cross” is ten feet high by six feet wide and was created in a, well, let’s say, different sort of way. There are people out there who won´t like it, and there are many ways of looking at it. While Dave develops his own relation to art and this particular piece, he begins defending it against his wife, the media and a whole bunch of religious fanatics. Then the shit hits the fan. In the end, his troubles come from an unexpected side.
Nick Hornby is an English writer born in 1957 in Surrey. He studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge. His first book, Fever Pitch (1992), was a huge success, followed by High Fidelity (1995) which was made into a film starring John Cusack and a Broadway musical. About a Boy, also adapted into a film starring Hugh Grant, came out in 1998. Hornby´s other novels are How to be Good (2001), A Long Way Down (2005), Slam (2007), Juliet, Naked (2009) and Funny Girl (2014). His short story collection includes Faith (1998), Not a Star (2000) and Otherwise Pandemonium (2005). He has written numerous essays mostly on music and literature. Hornby received, amongst numerous other awards and prizes, an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Lone Scherfig´s film An Education (2009). He has been given the name “The maestro of the male confessional” for the brilliant portrayal of his male characters in his novels.
