{"id":426,"date":"2013-05-19T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etberlin.de\/the-full-irish\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-05-19T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:43:21","slug":"germans-queued-up-for-the-full-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etberlin.de\/the-full-irish\/2013\/05\/germans-queued-up-for-the-full-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans queued up for The Full Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night Brokentalker’s production – ‘I Have No Mouth’ \u00a0ended with hundreds of balloons being released over the audience, this was also the ending of the festival. In the production it symbolised a lightness, a healing of sorts, \u00a0a sense of coming out the other side of a question, a time to play and hope. It was a beautiful ending to a powerful production and a fitting ending to the closing of the festival. The audience played with the balloons, sending them all directions, the performers did too.<\/p>\n

Having performed twice this week with two different casts and directors, having seen almost everything the festival has to offer and having written about it along the way, it is likely that I’d have another Jameson hangover and be a tad tired today.<\/p>\n

I don’t and I’m not.<\/p>\n

Work from Beckett, Roddy Doyle, Brokentalkers, Gary Duggan, The Company, Rachel West, Ciara Goss, \u00a0Claudia Schwartz, Shauna Tohill, Carmel Winters, Daniel Brunet, G\u00fcnther Grosser, Chang Nai Wen, Conor Lovett, Judy Hegarty Lovett, John Smith and many many more. The many more include actors, technicians, front and back of house staff and volunteers. And then there is the audience. They came in big numbers with open minds and generous clapping durations. The atmosphere all week was warm and open and excited. The shows posed grim and challenging questions, had audiences choking on laughter, angered some, softened others, there were lengthy conversations and about ‘why, how and who?’ \u00a0afterwards over drinks outside on balmy Berlin nights.<\/p>\n

There is no hangover, no tiredness, in fact the opposite. A discussion has begun, there is\u00a0a lightness, maybe even a healing of sorts, \u00a0a sense of coming out the other side of a question, perhaps even a time to play and hope.<\/p>\n

Audiences and performers will play with balloons together again after hard questions and live truths.<\/p>\n

G\u00fcnther Grosser of English Theatre Berlin brought the first ever Irish Theatre Festival to Berlin. It was a \u00a0success.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/stage\/germans-queue-up-for-the-full-irish-1.1396268<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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