etb yorckstr. m19 bus mehringdamm gneisenau …to convince robert hooke, the institution’s curator...
TRANSCRIPT
WE’RE HAPPYTO PRESENT OUR NEW WEBSITE TO GOperforms on smart phones & tablets
ETBERLIN.DE
etb
English ThEaTrE BErlin CalEndar aug/sEp 2013
ETBErlin.dE
aug/sEp 2013
International Performing Arts Center
etb
Exclusively and live from London!
On September 26 we present you a new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello – a play about the destructive power of jealousy. On October 17 we will broadcast a production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth. Find more information and tickets on cinestar.de
Englisch & Ferienspaß in Deutschland
• ReitCamps• FarmCamps• SchiffCamps• Surf- und SegelCamps• BeachCamps• Musik- und TalentCamps• Natur- und AbenteuerCamps• Sport- und KreativCamps• DayCamps in Berlin
Abenteuer, Sport, Spaß und Workshops mit muttersprachlichen Betreuern!
Diese Ferien sind für alle zwischen 6 und 15 Jahren ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis!
www.oskar-lernt-englisch.deTelefon 030 - 33 93 79 40
F40 is the shared venue of English Theatre Berlin and Theater Thikwa. English Theatre Berlin is an international performing arts center featuring English as a working language. Theater Thikwa is a German-language integrative theater performed by actors with and without disabilities.
International Performing Arts Center Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Platz der Luftbrücke: U6, Bus 104, 248 Mehringdamm: Bus M19
Our box office and bar open one hour before each performance.
Günther Grosser (Artistic Director)Bernd Hoffmeister (Managing Director)Daniel Brunet (Producing Artistic Director)
Education Despartment / Kulturelle Bildung: Pricilla Bergey (Workshop Coordinator), Inka-Charlotte Palm (Drama Educator), Minna Partanen (Drama Educator) | Communication: Sarah Rosenau (Press Relations + PR Manager), Heiko Orlowski (PR + Marketing Assistant) | Venue: Torsten Litschko (Technical Director), Minna Partanen (House Manager) | Logan Verdoorn (Artistic Intern)
English Theatre Berlin was founded by Bernd Hoffmeister in 1990.
OrdEr TiCkETsonline ETBErlin.dEPhone 030 6911211 email [email protected] offer the 3€ Kulturticket and special discounts for groups of 10 or more.
We thank all our supporters and sponsors: Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin, Staatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
etb Gneisenaustr.
Bergmannstr.
Columbiadamm
Fidicinstr.
Victoria Park
Meh
rin
gdam
m
Frie
sen
str
.Z
osse
ner
Str
.
Yorckstr.
Kreuzbergstr.
Dudenstr.
u6
u6 u7
Platz der Luftbrücke
Mehringdamm Gneisenau str.
Bus 104
M19 Bus
40
August 2013
9 Fri8pm | Main Stage
iCh, kürBisgEisTAn olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play by Sibyl Kempson introducing our partner-ship with PS122
10 Sat8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEOur monthly showcase of the best English-language comedy Berlin has to offer, featuring headliner Drew Portnoy (US)
14 Wed8pm | Main Stage
ThE dOllar gEnEralA film by international theater director Daniel Fish (US)
15 Thurs8pm | Main Stage
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplETHE LAB, an evening of excerpts of new plays performed by actors making their debuts at English Theatre Berlin
16 Fri 8pm | Main Stage
CrEaTurEsConcert with opening act Tristan Brusch
17 Sat8pm | Main Stage
isaaC’s EyEA staged reading of a new play by Lucas Hnath from our Science & Theatre series
September 2013
20 Fri 8pm | Studio
dOnald ray pOllOCkA literary reading from the short story collection Knockemstiff
24 Tues + 25 | 26 | 27 | 288pm | Main Stage
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOuA documentary theater piece created from over 60 interviews with so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin
29 Sun8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEGet ready for the raucous return of regular host and curator Paul Salamone, fresh back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
WE’RE HAPPYTO PRESENT OUR NEW WEBSITE TO GOperforms on smart phones & tablets
ETBERLIN.DE
etb
English ThEaTrE BErlin CalEndar aug/sEp 2013
ETBErlin.dE
aug/sEp 2013
International Performing Arts Center
etb
Exclusively and live from London!
On September 26 we present you a new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello – a play about the destructive power of jealousy. On October 17 we will broadcast a production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth. Find more information and tickets on cinestar.de
Englisch & Ferienspaß in Deutschland
• ReitCamps• FarmCamps• SchiffCamps• Surf- und SegelCamps• BeachCamps• Musik- und TalentCamps• Natur- und AbenteuerCamps• Sport- und KreativCamps• DayCamps in Berlin
Abenteuer, Sport, Spaß und Workshops mit muttersprachlichen Betreuern!
Diese Ferien sind für alle zwischen 6 und 15 Jahren ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis!
www.oskar-lernt-englisch.deTelefon 030 - 33 93 79 40
F40 is the shared venue of English Theatre Berlin and Theater Thikwa. English Theatre Berlin is an international performing arts center featuring English as a working language. Theater Thikwa is a German-language integrative theater performed by actors with and without disabilities.
International Performing Arts Center Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Platz der Luftbrücke: U6, Bus 104, 248 Mehringdamm: Bus M19
Our box office and bar open one hour before each performance.
Günther Grosser (Artistic Director)Bernd Hoffmeister (Managing Director)Daniel Brunet (Producing Artistic Director)
Education Despartment / Kulturelle Bildung: Pricilla Bergey (Workshop Coordinator), Inka-Charlotte Palm (Drama Educator), Minna Partanen (Drama Educator) | Communication: Sarah Rosenau (Press Relations + PR Manager), Heiko Orlowski (PR + Marketing Assistant) | Venue: Torsten Litschko (Technical Director), Minna Partanen (House Manager) | Logan Verdoorn (Artistic Intern)
English Theatre Berlin was founded by Bernd Hoffmeister in 1990.
OrdEr TiCkETsonline ETBErlin.dEPhone 030 6911211 email [email protected] offer the 3€ Kulturticket and special discounts for groups of 10 or more.
We thank all our supporters and sponsors: Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin, Staatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
etb Gneisenaustr.
Bergmannstr.
Columbiadamm
Fidicinstr.
Victoria Park
Meh
rin
gdam
m
Frie
sen
str
.Z
osse
ner
Str
.
Yorckstr.
Kreuzbergstr.
Dudenstr.
u6
u6 u7
Platz der Luftbrücke
Mehringdamm Gneisenau str.
Bus 104
M19 Bus
40
August 2013
9 Fri8pm | Main Stage
iCh, kürBisgEisTAn olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play by Sibyl Kempson introducing our partner-ship with PS122
10 Sat8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEOur monthly showcase of the best English-language comedy Berlin has to offer, featuring headliner Drew Portnoy (US)
14 Wed8pm | Main Stage
ThE dOllar gEnEralA film by international theater director Daniel Fish (US)
15 Thurs8pm | Main Stage
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplETHE LAB, an evening of excerpts of new plays performed by actors making their debuts at English Theatre Berlin
16 Fri 8pm | Main Stage
CrEaTurEsConcert with opening act Tristan Brusch
17 Sat8pm | Main Stage
isaaC’s EyEA staged reading of a new play by Lucas Hnath from our Science & Theatre series
September 2013
20 Fri 8pm | Studio
dOnald ray pOllOCkA literary reading from the short story collection Knockemstiff
24 Tues + 25 | 26 | 27 | 288pm | Main Stage
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOuA documentary theater piece created from over 60 interviews with so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin
29 Sun8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEGet ready for the raucous return of regular host and curator Paul Salamone, fresh back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
A staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
Donald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
With opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
A film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
A staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
Donald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
With opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
A film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
A staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
Donald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
COMEdy shOOwCasEFor the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
With opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
ThE dOllar gEnEralA film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
A staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
Donald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
CrEaTaTa urEsWith opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
A film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
isaaC’s EyEA staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
pOllllOCkDonald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
With opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
A film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
EXpaT EXpO
inTRoDUCinGTheinTeRnaTionalPeRFoRminGaRTSCenTeR
Dear friends,
2013 has been a big year for us so far and, to quote Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Notice anything new? We couldn’t be happier with the complete makeover we just got from studio adhoc. Swing over to www.etberlin.de to feast your eyes on the new website!
Hand-in-hand with our new look is our new artistic concept – expanding English Theatre Berlin into an international performing arts center for the Hauptstadt – one dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as a working language. With the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series – Brought to Berlin, the Performing Series and Pedagogy Series, we’ve got something for Urberliner, Wahlberliner and visitors from around the globe.
The new seasons starts with a block of programming called Introducing the International Performing Arts Center. It begins August 9 with a staged reading as part of our partnership with New York’s Performance Space 122, followed by comedy, Daniel Fish’s first film, New Work From New People in THE LAB, a concert from Creatures and a staged reading from our Science & Theatre series.
In September and October comes the first half of Aliens of Extra-ordinary Abilities?, investigating the experiences of so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin and the Hauptstadt’s rapidly changing cityscape. ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece with an ensemble of six performers, each connected to a specific “expat” or “immigrant” group.
The project continues off-site in November and December with New Weird Berlin, a collaboration with DISTRICT Kunst- und Kultur-förderung, the arts space in Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s Malzfabrik.
What else can you look forward to before the end of year? We’ve got a lot up our sleeves – with a bunch more from our Performing Series, THE LAB and some groundbreaking work from abroad in the Presenting Series! We can‘t wait to see you on August 9 to help us kick everything off in style!
Günther Grosser | Bernd Hoffmeister | Daniel Brunet
Directed and devised by Daniel Brunet
With Lara Babalola, Daniel Brunet, Murat Dikenci, Lynn Femme, Ariel-Nil Levy and Lara-Sophie Milagro
Dramaturgy by Lara-Sophie Milagro | Set and Costume Design by Tamar Ginati | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Video Design and Media Coordination by Josephine Landertinger Forero | Sound Design and Composition by Natalia Lincoln | Assistant Direction by Joseph Wegmann
FUCK YOU TOURISTS. NO MORE ROLLKOFFER. WELCOME TO SCHWABYLON. BERLIN ♥ U. Greetings from the Berlin welco-ming committee in the form of meter-high graffiti adorning every available surface. One, ECHTER BERLIN !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU, especially invites questions. What is a “real Berli-ner”? According to whom?
ECHTER BERLINER !!!! IHR NICHT FUCK YOU is a documentary theater piece exploring the diverging and converging expe-riences of so-called “expats”, often coming from comparably richer countries who travel to Berlin for self-realization, with those of so-called “immigrants”, often coming from compara-bly poorer countries for financial survival. At least, these are the generalizations.
For this piece, an international ensemble of six performers, each connected to a so-called “expat” or “immigrant” group, have conducted interviews with more than 60 members of their respective communities. Every word spoken on stage is taken from direct transcriptions of these interviews, revealing an oft-surprising picture of reality far beyond the banality of stereotypes.
September 24 – 28 + October 1 – 5, 2013 8pm | Main StageTickets 13 € (8 € students)
isaaC’s EyE
dOnald ray pOllOCk
CrEaTurEs
New Work From New People is an evening featuring work by writers, actors and directors who are new to English Theatre Berlin and our community that THE LAB will present every six months, in addition to its regular monthly programming. This evening is directed by Logan Verdoorn.
THE LAB is the monthly artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin.
August 15, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
A staged reading of a play by luCas hnaThDirected by Günther Grosser
With Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, Jeffrey Mittleman and Tomas Spencer
Young Isaac Newton desperately wants to become a member of the club of clubs for scientists, the Royal Society. In order to convince Robert Hooke, the institution’s curator of experi-ments, he sticks a needle into his tear duct to prove that light is made of particles. Ouch!!! And if science won’t do it there is another way: Hooke keeps a detailed diary of his sex life …Isaac’s Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
August 17, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
Donald Ray Pollock reads from Knockemstiff.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the stories in Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring charac-ters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved — but irresis-tibly, undeniably real.
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer raised in Knockem-stiff, Ohio. Doubleday published his debut short story collec-tion, Knockemstiff. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011.
Presented with Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and Liebeskind Verlag. Dietmar Wunder reads from the German translation.
September 20, 2013 | 8pm | Studio Tickets 5 €
liTEraTurE
COMEdy sCiEnCE & ThEaTrE prOduCing sEriEs ThE laB
etb
COMEdy shOwCasE
ThE dOllar gEnEral
Get ready for the raucous return of host Paul Salamone!
September 29, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. Check out some of the best comic talent from around the world.
Featuring Alex Upatov (Russia), Vincent Pfäfflin (Germany), Rey Melara (Honduras), Johnny Armstrong (UK) and headliner Drew Portnoy (US), with guest host James Harris (UK) and musical co-host Stephen Paul Taylor (Canada). Curated by Paul Salamone.
August 10, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
With opening act TrisTan BrusChSince the release of its debut in on Wait!What?Records in April, 2013 finds CREATURES swiftly gathering momentum and gathering like-minded musical companions (Jonny Zoum) to build a dynamic live act that captures and expands the dark, cinematic force layered within the gentle and restrained, yet powerful, songs that make up the CREATURES sound.
August 16, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 8 €
A film by daniEl fish (NYC)
Daniel Fish has long been interested in film – as a textual resource/referent (the screenplay), an element of his stage-craft (the screen) and a structural challenge to his drama-turgy (the “language” of cinema vs. the “language” of the theater). Recently, he made his first serious turn to filmma-king, with the hour-long The Dollar General, a funny, quiet, cinematographically deadpan meditation on economics, cri-sis, loss and change, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership. That is, it’s a movie about America right now. It’s a beautiful movie, profoundly affecting in its visual rusticity, and its haunting final scene – the final shot, especially – numbers among the most memorable committed to film in this coun-try in recent years.
August 14, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
filM COnCErT
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/ etberlin.de etberlin.de
etberlin.de/performing-series/comedy/
donaldraypollock.com etberlin.desoundcloud.com/creaturesmusicberlin
ps122 glOBal
A staged reading of a play by siByl kEMpsOnDirected by Daniel Brunet
English Theatre Berlin is pleased to announce a new partner-ship with New York City‘s Performance Space 122 as part of the PS122 GLOBAL program. Over the course of the 2013/2014 season, we will present a series of staged readings of new plays and performance texts commissioned by PS122. These will both introduce our audience to new work from New York City as well as continue our examination of the changing practice of playwriting and theater making in the 21st century.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live perfor-mance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Ich, KürbisGeist is presented with special permission from AO International Talent Agency.
An olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en (even though it’s August)! Inspired by Sibyl Kempson‘s visit to Aust-ria during Kürbiskernernte (pumpkin seed harvesting season), this piece features a rigorous, specific and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Caesar.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha and Theater Bonn in Germany.
August 9, 2013 | 8pm | Main Stage Tickets 5 €
iCh, kürBisgEisT
ps122.org danielfish.net
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplE
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOu
WE’RE HAPPYTO PRESENT OUR NEW WEBSITE TO GOperforms on smart phones & tablets
ETBERLIN.DE
etb
English ThEaTrE BErlin CalEndar aug/sEp 2013
ETBErlin.dE
aug/sEp 2013
International Performing Arts Center
etb
Exclusively and live from London!
On September 26 we present you a new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello – a play about the destructive power of jealousy. On October 17 we will broadcast a production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth. Find more information and tickets on cinestar.de
Englisch & Ferienspaß in Deutschland
• ReitCamps• FarmCamps• SchiffCamps• Surf- und SegelCamps• BeachCamps• Musik- und TalentCamps• Natur- und AbenteuerCamps• Sport- und KreativCamps• DayCamps in Berlin
Abenteuer, Sport, Spaß und Workshops mit muttersprachlichen Betreuern!
Diese Ferien sind für alle zwischen 6 und 15 Jahren ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis!
www.oskar-lernt-englisch.deTelefon 030 - 33 93 79 40
F40 is the shared venue of English Theatre Berlin and Theater Thikwa. English Theatre Berlin is an international performing arts center featuring English as a working language. Theater Thikwa is a German-language integrative theater performed by actors with and without disabilities.
International Performing Arts Center Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Platz der Luftbrücke: U6, Bus 104, 248 Mehringdamm: Bus M19
Our box office and bar open one hour before each performance.
Günther Grosser (Artistic Director)Bernd Hoffmeister (Managing Director)Daniel Brunet (Producing Artistic Director)
Education Despartment / Kulturelle Bildung: Pricilla Bergey (Workshop Coordinator), Inka-Charlotte Palm (Drama Educator), Minna Partanen (Drama Educator) | Communication: Sarah Rosenau (Press Relations + PR Manager), Heiko Orlowski (PR + Marketing Assistant) | Venue: Torsten Litschko (Technical Director), Minna Partanen (House Manager) | Logan Verdoorn (Artistic Intern)
English Theatre Berlin was founded by Bernd Hoffmeister in 1990.
OrdEr TiCkETsonline ETBErlin.dEPhone 030 6911211 email [email protected] offer the 3€ Kulturticket and special discounts for groups of 10 or more.
We thank all our supporters and sponsors: Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin, Staatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
etb Gneisenaustr.
Bergmannstr.
Columbiadamm
Fidicinstr.
Victoria Park
Meh
rin
gdam
m
Frie
sen
str
.Z
osse
ner
Str
.
Yorckstr.
Kreuzbergstr.
Dudenstr.
u6
u6 u7
Platz der Luftbrücke
Mehringdamm Gneisenau str.
Bus 104
M19 Bus
40
August 2013
9 Fri8pm | Main Stage
iCh, kürBisgEisTAn olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play by Sibyl Kempson introducing our partner-ship with PS122
10 Sat8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEOur monthly showcase of the best English-language comedy Berlin has to offer, featuring headliner Drew Portnoy (US)
14 Wed8pm | Main Stage
ThE dOllar gEnEralA film by international theater director Daniel Fish (US)
15 Thurs8pm | Main Stage
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplETHE LAB, an evening of excerpts of new plays performed by actors making their debuts at English Theatre Berlin
16 Fri 8pm | Main Stage
CrEaTurEsConcert with opening act Tristan Brusch
17 Sat8pm | Main Stage
isaaC’s EyEA staged reading of a new play by Lucas Hnath from our Science & Theatre series
September 2013
20 Fri 8pm | Studio
dOnald ray pOllOCkA literary reading from the short story collection Knockemstiff
24 Tues + 25 | 26 | 27 | 288pm | Main Stage
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOuA documentary theater piece created from over 60 interviews with so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin
29 Sun8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEGet ready for the raucous return of regular host and curator Paul Salamone, fresh back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
WE’RE HAPPYTO PRESENT OUR NEW WEBSITE TO GOperforms on smart phones & tablets
ETBERLIN.DE
etb
English ThEaTrE BErlin CalEndar aug/sEp 2013
ETBErlin.dE
aug/sEp 2013
International Performing Arts Center
etb
Exclusively and live from London!
On September 26 we present you a new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello – a play about the destructive power of jealousy. On October 17 we will broadcast a production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth. Find more information and tickets on cinestar.de
Englisch & Ferienspaß in Deutschland
• ReitCamps• FarmCamps• SchiffCamps• Surf- und SegelCamps• BeachCamps• Musik- und TalentCamps• Natur- und AbenteuerCamps• Sport- und KreativCamps• DayCamps in Berlin
Abenteuer, Sport, Spaß und Workshops mit muttersprachlichen Betreuern!
Diese Ferien sind für alle zwischen 6 und 15 Jahren ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis!
www.oskar-lernt-englisch.deTelefon 030 - 33 93 79 40
F40 is the shared venue of English Theatre Berlin and Theater Thikwa. English Theatre Berlin is an international performing arts center featuring English as a working language. Theater Thikwa is a German-language integrative theater performed by actors with and without disabilities.
International Performing Arts Center Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Platz der Luftbrücke: U6, Bus 104, 248 Mehringdamm: Bus M19
Our box office and bar open one hour before each performance.
Günther Grosser (Artistic Director)Bernd Hoffmeister (Managing Director)Daniel Brunet (Producing Artistic Director)
Education Despartment / Kulturelle Bildung: Pricilla Bergey (Workshop Coordinator), Inka-Charlotte Palm (Drama Educator), Minna Partanen (Drama Educator) | Communication: Sarah Rosenau (Press Relations + PR Manager), Heiko Orlowski (PR + Marketing Assistant) | Venue: Torsten Litschko (Technical Director), Minna Partanen (House Manager) | Logan Verdoorn (Artistic Intern)
English Theatre Berlin was founded by Bernd Hoffmeister in 1990.
OrdEr TiCkETsonline ETBErlin.dEPhone 030 6911211 email [email protected] offer the 3€ Kulturticket and special discounts for groups of 10 or more.
We thank all our supporters and sponsors: Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin, Staatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
etb Gneisenaustr.
Bergmannstr.
Columbiadamm
Fidicinstr.
Victoria Park
Meh
rin
gdam
m
Frie
sen
str
.Z
osse
ner
Str
.
Yorckstr.
Kreuzbergstr.
Dudenstr.
u6
u6 u7
Platz der Luftbrücke
Mehringdamm Gneisenau str.
Bus 104
M19 Bus
40
August 2013
9 Fri8pm | Main Stage
iCh, kürBisgEisTAn olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play by Sibyl Kempson introducing our partner-ship with PS122
10 Sat8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEOur monthly showcase of the best English-language comedy Berlin has to offer, featuring headliner Drew Portnoy (US)
14 Wed8pm | Main Stage
ThE dOllar gEnEralA film by international theater director Daniel Fish (US)
15 Thurs8pm | Main Stage
nEw wOrk frOM nEw pEOplETHE LAB, an evening of excerpts of new plays performed by actors making their debuts at English Theatre Berlin
16 Fri 8pm | Main Stage
CrEaTurEsConcert with opening act Tristan Brusch
17 Sat8pm | Main Stage
isaaC’s EyEA staged reading of a new play by Lucas Hnath from our Science & Theatre series
September 2013
20 Fri 8pm | Studio
dOnald ray pOllOCkA literary reading from the short story collection Knockemstiff
24 Tues + 25 | 26 | 27 | 288pm | Main Stage
EChTEr BErlinEr !!!! ihr niChT fuCk yOuA documentary theater piece created from over 60 interviews with so-called “expats” and so-called “immigrants” in Berlin
29 Sun8pm | Main Stage
COMEdy shOwCasEGet ready for the raucous return of regular host and curator Paul Salamone, fresh back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival