Theatre as controlled demolition: Christopher Rüping’s dissection of Brecht is thrilling, smart and savage.
Germany
10 May 2018
Reviews • Germany
Review: Women in Trouble at Volksbühne
By Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson reviews “cyborg theatre” by Susanne Kennedy
10 May 2018
Reviews • Germany
Review: Rückkehr nach Reims at Theatertreffen 2018
By Lee Anderson
Behind-the-scenes: Lee Anderson reviews Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of Didier Eribon’s novel.
1 June 2017
Features • Festivals • Germany • International • Reviews
Theatertreffen: A dialogue
By Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson and Annegret Märten discover metatheatrics, total theatre and a fug of Ostalgie at Berlin’s fortnight-long festival of German theatre.
12 May 2017
Reviews • Germany
Review: Real Magic at Theatertreffen 2017
9 - 11 May 2017
By Lee Anderson
Rinse, repeat, ad infinitum: Lee Anderson review Forced Entertainment’s performance at Theatertreffen 2017.
8 May 2017
Reviews • Germany
Review: Drei Schwestern at Theatertreffen 2017
6 - 21 May 2017
By Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson finds that Simon Stone’s new version of Three Sisters reduces the women of Chekhov’s original to “bit players in their own drama”.
27 May 2015
Reviews • Germany
A Piece of Plastic
Schaubühne Theatre ⋄ until 23rd June 2015
By Natasha Tripney
Art and the middle classes.
15 May 2015
Reviews • Germany
Common Ground
Maxim Gorki Theater ⋄ 7th-15th May 2015
By Catherine Love
It’s complicated.
13 May 2015
Reviews • Germany
Warum Laüft Herr R. Amok
Theatretreffen ⋄
By Lee Anderson
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Verfremdungseffeckt
29 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Don Giovanni. Letzte Party
Thalia Theatre ⋄ Until 8th January 2014
By Andrew Haydon
Theatremachine malfunction.
28 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Hedda Gabler
Thalia Theatre ⋄
By Andrew Haydon
Attacking Ibsen.
22 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Orlando
Thalia Theatre ⋄ Until 22nd December 2013
By Andrew Haydon
Hero/ine.
21 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Die Brüder Karamasow
Thalia Theatre ⋄ Until 1st January 2014
By Andrew Haydon
Slow, solemn, electric.
20 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Schwarze Augen, Maria
Deutsches Schauspielhaus ⋄ 16th November - 15th December 2013
By Andrew Haydon
Paralysingly unnerving.
19 November 2013
Reviews • Germany
Nach Europa
Deutsches Schauspielhaus ⋄ 17th November - 6th December 2013
By Andrew Haydon
Representation and repetition.