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postcards from berlin

this is an exercise i invented for myself to process a bunch of work i was seeing while based in berlin a couple years back.

these aren’t reviews by any means.

they’re freewheeling reflections on the differences between anglo-canadian and northern european theatre ecologies, prompted by specific pieces i saw over the course of fall 2017.

in retrospect i probably should have carried the exercise over to the dance clubs. next time.

postcards from berlin #14 [kafka onstage]

AMERIKA (r. parízek) @ deutsches theater

Amerika nach dem Roman "Der Verschollene" von Franz Kafka Regie / Bühne Dušan David Pařízek Kostüme Kamila Polívková Musik Marcel Braun Dramaturgie Birgit Lengers Es spielen Edgar Eckert, Marcel Kohler, Ulrich Matthes, Frank Seppeler, Regine Zimmermann Premiere am 27. September 2017 im Deutschen Theater Franz Kafkas "ins endlose angelegte Geschichte" erzählt die abenteuerliche, dann albtraumhafte Lebensreise eines 16-jährigen Exilanten wider Willen.

it used to be that i liked the idea of kafka onstage better in theory than in practice.  now i’m beginning to understand why it’s not even that exciting in theory.  not even with regine zimmerman being fucking fantastic.

for more on the show click here.

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