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German Stage

Theater Review: “The Whole World” — The Monsters Are Us

The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Deb Martin, German Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, Ian Thal, Ingrid MacGillis, Karl-Heinz Ott, Marianna Bassham, Robert Kropf, Theresia Walser, Thomas Kee

Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”

Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Case Named Freud, Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, German Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, Savyon Liebrecht

Theater Review: German Stage — These Youth Don’t Want to Hear No “WhiteBreadMusic”

In interesting ways, German Stage’s ongoing exploration of Germany’s immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Charlotte Collins., German Stage, German theater, Goethe Institut-Boston, Guy Ben-Aharon, Marianna Salzmann, translation

Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany

Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more ‘cinematic’ when they are produced here?

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Abyss, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, Maria Milisavljevic

Theater Review: “The Golden Dragon” — A Satire With Bite about International Cuisine

In his satire “The Golden Dragon,” Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged: German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, The Golden Dragon

Theater Feature: From the Mouths of Female Despots — An Interview With Playwright Theresia Walser

Dramatist Theresia Walser is careful to point out that these women did not merely benefit from the abuses of authoritarian power, but perpetrated many of them as well.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater, World Books Tagged: German Stage, German theater, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, Theresia Walser, translation

Theater Review: “A Little Calm Before the Storm” — The Art of Playing Hitler

Director Guy Ben-Aharon is on a roll. Working through Israeli Stage and German Stage, he has brought together another smart, compelling foreign play (an American premiere) and a first-rate cast.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Little Calm Before the Storm, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, hitler, Theresia Walser

Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”

Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Featured, Theater, World Books Tagged: Alexander Muheim, Dominique Frot, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Hans Peter Cloos, Ingeborg Bachmann, let us find the words, Paul Celan

Theater Review: Eighteenth Century Pen Pals — Voltaire and Frederick

Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities rather than ideas.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, French Enlightenment, German Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah, Voltaire, Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters

Theater Feature: A German Stage at the Goethe-Institut Boston

“The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that reach the stage.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annette Klein, Boston, Detlef Gerick-Schönhagen, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah, Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters

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