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Category: Current Production

Talk to us…

March 30, 2011February 9, 2015Current ProductionNo Comments

We want your input. With this post we would like to take you on a part of the journey of this project, including a little history of Turkey and some articles relevant to the project… Read or just browse and […]

First Images from Designers of S/he

January 16, 2011January 20, 2011Current ProductionNo Comments

For the last few months the S/he production design team has held regular Skype calls. Designers Steffi and Pei-Chi have been leading the group in accumulating visuals that explore the project’s theme and sharing their initial ideas on set and […]

Translating the Story

December 4, 2008December 6, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

International Culture Lab’s production of Outside Inn had traveled through many incarnations to its Off-Broadway premiere. The University of Pittsburgh, ICL and Theater Rampe Stuttgart originally commissioned playwright Andreas Jungwirth to create a text to serve as a vehicle to […]

Staging the N-word

June 13, 2008Current Production1 Comment

I received some insightful and referenced comments from the dramaturgs on the LMDA listserv concerning the use of the N-word on stage and the struggle of our current production to present it. But interesting how even within the context of […]

Dramaturgy and PR

June 9, 2008June 13, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

Plays are part and parcel of their productions. Zeitgeist, site-specific elements and the actor/producer’s explicit talents and ambitions all inform the reality. Does the “event” of the production have any historical importance to theatre or the world? The “audience” of […]

Design Proposal/Collaboration

June 4, 2008June 8, 2008Current ProductionNo Comments

(Seated left to right) Melanie, Nick, Gabriele, Andreas, Kirby (March, 2008 Brooklyn) Concept proposals and other table work for the New York production at 59E59 of Outside Inn began in March with a four-day meeting of the principle collaborators in […]

Awake From Your Slumber!

March 15, 2008March 15, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

Our current project with Theater Rampe Stuttgart in Germany commissioned a new script from Austrian author Andreas Jungwirth. Outside Inn examines how capitalism has infiltrated into the most personal parts of our lives. In the passage below the character Paul, […]

The Big Suit

December 31, 2007January 22, 2008Current Production, Performance Techniques1 Comment

The scene staging for Marina “finding the lost key” as she is putting on her dress exemplifies how Brechtian and naturalistic performance could at times meld within the production. Petra’s portayal of Marina was intersting to watch in that scene […]

Gestus for characters

December 31, 2007June 8, 2008Current Production, Performance Techniques1 Comment

Andreas is right when he says this is complicated. Usually when we talk about a Brechtian actor or Brechtian performance, we’re stuck with opening up a very dense can of worms that is the Brechtian paradigm, the whole “historical materialistic […]

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