Program
READING: THE WAY OF WATER
THE WAY OF WATER by American playwright Caridad Svitch marks the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill this April with multiple readings across the US and abroad.
American director Jake Witlen presents the play as a staged reading with Ric Oquita, Seumas Sargent, Nichola MacEvilly and Katharina Sporrer, on Sunday May 13 at 8pm. Admisssion is free.
BIYT BENEFIT
The Calamity Convention - the ANNUAL BENEFIT for BERLIN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE´s upcoming show, TILL SOMEONE SNEEZES
Sunday May 6th 2012, 2 – 6pm
Come hell or high water - Dress for Disaster, with Prizes for the best costume! With its legendary eye-popping melange of hilarity and unclassifiable fun, this year's event features live music from the amazing banjo strumming Cera Impala, BIYT´s very own Wind-up Toy Race - Bring your own toy if you want ! - flea market, book sale, baked goods, refreshments, games and the standard raffle, plus a special Sneak Peak of the New BIYT play, Till Someone Sneezes.
As if that weren't enough, we´ll have an apocalyptic auction of survival devices and free advice with assemblage !!
Tickets 6€ / 3 € students
Join us and support BIYT's new theatre production Till Someone Sneezes to be premiered June 8th !
4th LONG NIGHT OF OPERA AND THEATRE
On Saturday April 28th English Theatre Berlin will again participate in the LONG NIGHT OF OPERA AND THEATRE where 57 venues all over Berlin will present clips and excerpts from over 150 shows. Together with THEATER THIKWA English Theater Berlin will present a full program both on the Main Stage and the Studio starting at 7pm until 1am.
ENGLISH THEATRE BERLIN presented clips from Alan Bennett´s TALKING HEADS (Monica Solem with her breath-taking "Nights at the Gardens of Spain"), from Movement Production´s DARK by S. D. Clifford, Bridge Markland´s FAUST IN THE BOX plus two of this year´s winneers of our TEN-MINUTE PLAY CONTEST.
Monica Solem in "Talking Heads"
Ten-Minute Play Contest: The Winners
THE FIVE WINNERS of our TEN-MINUTE PLAY CONTEST 2012 on the theme
The First Time
were performed April 17 to 22, 2012 in repertory every night at 8pm.
Director: ERIKA HUGHES
set and costumes: Tomas Fitzpatrick / lights: Katri Kuusimäki
with David Cassel, Carrie Getman, Agnes Lampkin and Paul Marino
Check out this TAGESSPIEGEL article about the new contest here.
The winners were:
GOLDEN GATES by ROSIE SKAN - A mother wonders if there is hope enough across the span of water and years. Is there hope enough to get to the other side.
MY FIRST APOCALYPSE by MAXWELL FLAUM - Two oft forgotten stalwart health care facilitators speak for the first time and muse upon a change of profession. One takes the piss and the other talks shit.
THE RED COUCH by MARIE FRANZ - Oymel and Poymel are in a relationship and in that relationship is a red couch. On the red couch life can sit softly between them or wrestle for space in great discomfort.
SPIN THE WORLD AROUND by KATE McCANE - It's been three years since the first incident. Three years since the world changed and how. He was looking for comfort, she was looking for him.
AUTHORIZATION BREAKDOWN by MARTIN ESTERS - "The first play he ever wrote," he wrote - a turducken of a play!
The 2012 contest was curated by PIP SWALLOW.
All about the Ten-Minute Play contest HERE.
IMPRO 2012
11th International Festival for Improv Theatre March 27 - 31 2012
„IMPRO can do anything“ – is the motto of Europe's biggest improvised theatre festival this year. Featuring 35 artists from 12 nations, the festival takes place in ten different Berlin locations and presents a multitude of facets of improvised theatre on cutting-edge international level. English Theatre Berlin presents five different festival shows.
Official Impro 2012 festival page HERE.
I, Ca$$ie…or The end of days
a piece by Matthew Earnest March 20 – 24 2012
performed by Nicole Perrone
produced by The Lunar Stratagem (Huntington, West Virginia, USA)
production design by William Bezek / sound design by James Kosmatka / stage manager Shelby Brewster
“Hi, I’m Ca$$ie, standard-bearer of the apocalypse! May I take your order?”
Inspired by Cassandra, the shrill prophet of doom from Greek mythology, Matthew Earnest’s piece features Ca$$ie – head cheerleader, homecoming queen, and soon-to-be-named valedictorian of Troy High School – doing community service hours in a fast food drive-thru. Ca$$ie is on probation for driving drunk after last week’s homecoming game, and ever since the resulting car accident that injured most of her friends and put her brother Hector in a coma, Ca$$ie has been having “the freakiest dreams,” horrifying visions about the end of the world. The most persistent one, about a tall horse at the gate, is especially annoying, and all Ca$$ie really wants is sleep.
“Somebody please just pour gasoline on my life and strike a match.”
JAIMY GORDON
reads from her novel Lord of Misrule - March 21, 2012
presented by The U.S. Embassy in cooperation with Aufbau Verlag and English Theatre Berlin as part of the U.S.Embassy Literature Series
CHRISTIANE PAUL liest aus der deutschen Übersetzung Die Aussenseiter (Aufbau Verlag 2012) / Moderation: Prof. CATRIN GERSDORF (Universität Würzburg)
PHOTOGRAPH 51
by ANNA ZIEGLER
A science play about a revolutionary discovery - and how the boys took over
February 24 - March 10 2012
PHOTOGRAPH 51 is part of English Theatre Berlin´s SCIENCE&THEATRE program.
Read the reviews in in Exberliner and Neues Deutschland (in German) - watch a video clip about our production on BIOTECHNOLOGIE.TV (in German)
In the early 1950s the young Jewish scientist Rosalind Franklin had to struggle with a frustratingly male-dominated science establishment at King´s College in London. Some of her colleagues even refused to acknowledge her doctoral title, while access to the faculty club, which was reserved to men, remained denied to her.
After months of work, she succeeded in taking the X-ray photograph that became the turning point for elucidating the DNA double helical structure: photograph 51. However, the credit for this revolutionary scientific discovery was given to the men who used the picture without her knowledge; Franklin´s crucial contribution went unacknowledged for decades.
When James Watson, Francis Crick and Franklin´s colleague Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel prize in 1962, she had been dead for four years.
In a nutshell, Anna Ziegler‘s play shows the making of an outstanding scientific discovery in a bone-dry, ritualized and women-excluding male establishment, in which an emotional minefield, social coldness and hierarchies, antisemitism and ferocious fighting for recognition and scientific priority went hand-in-hand with scientific curiosity, meticulousness and juvenile enthusiasm. (in 1952, James Watson was just 24 years old, Rosalind Franklin was 32 !).
directed by Günther Grosser
with Anna Cramer, Ben Maddox, Erman Jones, Stuart Austen, Kevin McKinnon, Oskar Brown
Set design and Costumes: Tomas Fitzpatrick - Light Design: Katri Kuusimäki
AN EVENING ON ‘WOMEN IN SCIENCE‘
Public lecture and discussion with Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge (Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin) on ‘Women in Science - Past and Present‘, followed by two documentary films by Rosemarie Reed on Lise Meitner (‘The Path to Nuclear Fission‘) und Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (‘Out from the Shadows‘)
March 5th / 7pm
DESIGNER GENES
Biopolitical scenarios from a terribly blessed future
October 2011 - February 2012
The project was part of SCIENCE & THEATRE 2012 and consisted of performances - February 6 - 8 2012 - and an exhibition exploring synthetic biology, developed by students of Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium, Humboldt-Gymnasium, and Leibniz-Schule.
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