Program
Calendar
May 20: The Lab: Cinders - May 24: Reading: Karen Russell + Fiona Maazel - May 29 / 30 / 31 / June 1 / 2: Between - June 8 / 9 / 10: Till Someone Sneezes - June 14 / 15 / 16 / 17: Acile in Wnoedrlnad - July 5 / 6 / 7 / 12 / 13 / 14: faust in the box
The Lab: CINDERS
LAB reading of a new play by Neil Bristow
Sunday May 20 / 3pm / STUDIO - Tickets €5
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.
Reading: Karen Russell + Fiona Maazel
The U.S. Embassy Literature Serie: The U.S. Embassy in cooperation with Veranstaltungsforum der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, the American Academy Berlin, and the English Theatre Berlin presents
A joint reading with Karen Russell, American Academy Spring Fellow 2012, and Fiona Maazel, Picador-Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig - Thursday, May 24 / 7pm
Karen Russell will read from Vampires in the Lemon Grove, her a new collection of short stories
Fiona Maazel will read from her forthcoming novel Woke up Lonely
Moderator: Gregor Dotzauer
Tickets: 3€
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BETWEEN
a South African play about love and lust by Merryn Carver
May 29 - June 2 / daily at 8pm / at the STUDIO
Ticket 14€ / 8€ students / On Wednesday May 30th all tickets 7€! - book them online HERE - and print them out at home!
Directed by Geoffrey Hyland / with Oskar Brown and Nicholas Campbell
produced by FOURWORDS PRODUCTIONS
Lost somewhere between love and lust; a man, a boy, a couple, a teacher and his student .
When is sex exciting, slightly naughty, arousing and playful?
How does sex suddenly turn into a ritual, an act, a sacrifice... into emotional pain form which there is no coming back? An emotional dead end from which a relationship is hard pressed to return from.
Three separate, yet suggestively interlinked, stories explore how love can transcend sexual boundaries and what happens when the love disappears and the loss becomes acute.
LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE
Our DESIGNER GENES project will be presented at the Freie Universität Berlin during this year´s LANGE NACHT DER WISSENSCHAFTEN on JUNE 2nd. All about it HERE
Till Someone Sneezes
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE´s new show TILL SOMEONE SNEEZES
loosely based on The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
written and performed by Berlin International Youth Theatre / directed by Priscilla Bergey / Music:Natalia Lincoln / Design: Sillie Heeschen
June 8 and 9 / 7pm - June 10 / 4pm
Tickets 12€ / 6€ students- book them online HERE and print them out at home !
The Skin of our Teeth, written in 1942, a time of strife for many people in the world, was meant to be a tribute to human endurance. In the original play, at the center is a family facing one apocalyptic catastrophe after another,
But in looking at the play through the eyes of an adolescent, the word "catastrophe" has different connotations.
How will the family survive when everyone is so preoccupied with pizza ? Does Playstation really help in times of panic? And why do the actors keep on interrupting the show? And what have they got against Guinea pig?
Although warned in the daily news of the coming Hurricane, epidemic or war, the family becomes caught up in their own personal problems making their chances of survival look - not very good.
BIYT has turned this classic play into a dark comedy full of Simpson-like symbolism and created another one of their signature epics.
ACILE IN WNOEDRLNAD
ENGLISH COMMUNITY THEATRE presents its version of Lewis Carroll´s classic tale
June 14 - 17 / 8 pm - Tickets 14€ / 8 € students - book them online HERE and print them out at home!
Directed by: Inka-Charlotte Palm / Assistant Director: Neal Cahoon / Light: Christian Maith
with Steven Blum, Thomas Farr, Fredrik Gisselson, Jan Hermel, Pierre Malo, Marcel Minaifar, Christian Müller, Minna Partanen, Katerina Pavlou, Masha Samsonova, Miriam Schroetter, Diana Serbanescu, Anna Tkach pic: Thomas Farr
If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re more than a little curious. But are you ready to take a tumble? Who knows where you’ll end up - this is Wonderland after all. We’ve all been following our own White Rabbits and we’re all simply terrified of the Queen of Hearts. Or are we? Saying what we mean is the same thing as meaning what we say, isn’t it? Mind the step or you’ll lose your mind. Enjoy the pepper, play croquet, try your best to speak the right way. Avoid the time, don’t cry when you’re sad, don’t talk to the Hatter or you’ll see that he’s mad. But you can’t help that - we’re all mad here… The day you become Alice is a very special day indeed.
“It all started long before I came here… It started all in my mind... It started with a magic spell…”
“My first impression of Wonderland was absolute freedom.”
“The first thing was the cold. Minus 14, bone chilling cold. I waited by the station watching the trains glide, almost silently along the tracks. I’d forgotten the instructions, I didn’t know what train to get and I’d worn entirely the wrong kind of shoes.”
“I first came to Wonderland with friends in 1986 when I was still in high school.”
more about ENGLISH COMMUNITY THEATRE here
FAUST IN THE BOX
A classic for the pop music generation - July 5 - 7 / 12 - 14 / 8pm / studio
Tickets 14€ / 8€ students - book them online HERE - and print them out at home!
The performance and transformation artist Bridge Markland presents J. W. Goethe´s “Faust“ as a one-woman-show using hand puppets and pop music. With an intense physicality, she performs high speed changes between Mephisto, Faust and Margarete/Gretchen using hand puppets as her opponents. She acts to a sound collage made up of the text of the play and popular music from different generations.
IN THE PIPELINE
Neil LaBute´s THIS IS HOW IT GOES ! (August)