59E59 Theaters, New York: October 1-19, 2008
American Days, sponsored by the Deutsch Amerikanisches Zentrum, Stuttgart: July 1-5, 2008
Theater Rampe Stuttgart: September 28 - October 20, 2007
Charity Randall Theatre, Pittsburgh: September 12-15, 2007
Outside Inn is a murder mystery that leaps across three continents, including present-day Germany, a small town near the Arizona-Mexican border and Namibia (the former German colony). Paul, a disillusioned German civic engineer unintentionally participates in the death of his boss, a Svengali-like tycoon. Rather than going to the police, Paul runs away to a small town in Arizona. With his mistress Marina by his side, he steals the identity of his former boss and flees across the Mexican border. The husband and wife Paul and Marina leave behind must face a future alone and a past that continues to haunt them.
To obtain a copy of the play, please contact Gabriele Schafer at gaby@intlculturelab.org.
The University of Pittsburgh, ICL and Theater Rampe Stuttgart commissioned Outside Inn from Berlin-based, Austrian author Andreas Jungwirth as a vehicle to explore cultural difference among the collaborators and their respective countries. The project called for four bilingual actors, two from Theater Rampe and two from International Culture Lab, to perform the play in both languages on both continents. Outside Inn rehearsed and previewed at the University of Pittsburgh in September 2007, where it played two German and three English language performances. It then traveled to Stuttgart, Germany, where it played at Theater Rampe Stuttgart in October 2007, including five performances in English and one mixed language performance. It returned to Stuttgart July 1-5, 2008, as part of the first annual American Days, sponsored by the German American Center "to further improve and intensify the transatlantic dialog," and ran Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in October of 2008.
Three features of Outside Inn make this production unique:
Cast: Roger Grunwald*, Markus Hirnigel, Jenny Lee Mitchell*, Karen Sieber*
Dramaturgy: Nick Fracaro
Stage Management: Karin Anderson
Scenic Design: Stephanie Mayer-Staley
Costume Design: Pei-Chi Su
Lighting Design: Ed Intemann
Media Design: Austin Guest
Sound Design: Nicholas Crano
Production Management: Vadim Malinskiy
Production Assistants: Theodora Loukas, Krista Parsons
Project conception and idea development: Stephan Bruckmeier and Melanie Dreyer
Playwright: Andreas Jungwirth
Director: Melanie Dreyer
Translator: Gabriele Schafer
Dramaturgy: Stephan Bruckmeier
Stage Management: Ashley J Martin*
Cast: Stephan Bruckmeier (DE), Roger Grunwald* (USA), Gabriele Schafer* (USA), Petra Weimer (DE)
Scenic Design: Stephanie Mayer-Staley
Costume Design: Pei-Chi Su
Lighting Design: Erick Leininger
Sound Design: Nicholas Crano
Properties: Ryan Howe
Graphic Design: Nancy Young
Dialect/Voice Coaching: Janet Madelle Feindel
Video Design and Documentary: Christopher Maxwell and James Wong
* Members, Actors' Equity Association