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GIG LISTINGS April YOUR GUIDE TO CONCERTS AND EVENTS THIS MONTH AND BEYOND. präsentiert von THE EARLY DAYS, BRIT POP & BEYOND 1980-2010 04.05.2018 | LIDO | British.Music.Club | King Kong Kicks | Karrera Klub DJs 22 JAHRE KARRERA KLUB 09.05.2018 | Bohnengold | Free Entry DJs | Tim | Spencer | Christian & Herr Lhmnn ISAAC GRACIE 08.05.2018 | BI NUU CITY CALM DOWN 28.05.2018 | PRIVATCLUB CAR SEAT HEADREST 31.05.2018 | FESTSAAL KREUZBERG COURTNEY BARNETT 11.06.2018 | ASTRA KULTURHAUS BURT BACHARACH 14.07.2018 | ADMIRALSPALAST I HEART SHARKS 15.09.2018 | LIDO Info & Tickets: www.karreraklub.de THE BEACHES 22.05.2018 | MUSIK UND FRIEDEN ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER 29.05.2018 | LIDO Dylyn 20.05.18 Kantine am Berghain And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 11.06.18 Bi Nuu Mystic Braves & The Creation Factory 08.08.18 Musik & Frieden S.Carey 21.09.18 Privatclub Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 29.10.18 Lido Neko Case 01.11.18 Bi Nuu Tunng 04.11.18 Lido Plusmacher 10.11.18 Festsaal Kreuzberg The War On Drugs 10.12.18 Verti Music Hall Ariel Pink 06.08.18 Festsaal Kreuzberg Scott Matthew 13.05.18 Heimathafen Neukölln Nakhane 21.05.18 Kantine am Berghain Johnny Marr 21.05.18 Festsaal Kreuzberg Sam Vance-Law 26.10.18 Lido TICKETS UND INFOS: SCHONEBERG.DE TICKETS UND INFOS: SCHONEBERG.DE JaPanese BreakfasT 09.05.18 Marie-Antoinette Cavern of anti-Matter suPPorT: ulrika sPacek 20.05.18 Volksbühne frankie CosMos suPPorT: The goon sax 22.05.18 Kantine am Berghain PaLM 26.05.18 Urban Spree Pere uBu 28.05.18 Frannz Club sCreaMing feMaLes 29.05.18 Kantine am Berghain haBiBi 30.05.18 Arkaoda The sea & cake 31.05.18 Frannz Club LoMa 18.06.18 Musik & Frieden la luZ 02.10.18 Musik & Frieden DaMien JUraDo 08.10.18 Heimathafen Neukölln ryley Walker 06.11.18 Frannz Club TICKETS & INFO: Puschen.neT naP eyes 02.05.18 Monarch kaTie von schleicher 07.05.18 Monarch The Wave PicTures 15.05.18 Privatclub suPerchunk 02.06.18 Quasimodo PreoccuPaTions 07.06.18 Musik & Frieden SchneidersLaden presents damien dempsey - candice gordon - nina hynes - tau richie heffernan - dee mulrooney - fontaines john connors - mary kelly - a.s.fanning eva garland - turloch o broin steppenkind - pearly & many more... Berlin in English since 2002 music visual art theatre - film poetry - dance lock-in sing song sunday brunch wake alternative Irish music & arts festival craw spectacle & carnival 22-24 june KultstätteKeller - Neukölln www.craw.space SELAH SUE Di. 05.06. Einlass 19:00 Festsaal Kreuzberg Fritz präsentiert: KATY PERRY WITNESS: The Tour Mi. 06.06. Einlass 18:00 Mercedes-Benz-Arena Rolling Stone & Radio Eins präsentieren: DAVID BYRNE Mi. 27.06. Einlass 18:30 Tempodrom intro & FluxFM präsentieren: DIE ANTWOORD support: Moonbootica Di. 14.08. Einlass 17:00 Parkbühne Wuhlheide DEATHPROD Mi. 24.10. Einlass 20:00 Berghain Infos unter www.mct-agentur.com tickets > www.tickets.de und 030-6110 1313 SUPER BOOTH 18 UMPF, TAKA, TAKA, BAM BAM BAM, BRZZZ, SCHIIEH, RÖDDER, MPFMPF, MPF, PIIEP, MÖÖP, LABA, PALAVA, SCHINGE- LINGELING! 03 - 05 MAI FEZ BERLIN Moby Dick based on the novel by Herman Melville Opening night 26 May Direction: Jacob Höhne Music: Andreas Spechtl Puppetry: Das Helmi with English surtitles 34 EXBERLINER 155 www.rambazamba-theater.de
WHAT’S ON — Stage THEATER- TREFFEN MAY 4-21 Mittelreich, Judith Buss A crumbling bastion of the White Male? The Berliner Festspiele continues its march to a more diverse Theatertreffen. By Daniel Mufson Editor’s Choice It’s back – Berlin’s Theatertreffen, the spring theatre festival that’s been showcasing the 10 most “notable” productions per season in the German-speaking world since 1964. The festival’s stated mission has not overtly changed over the years, but it has made important reforms in response to certain criticisms, like adding a side-section that highlighs new voices (The Stückemarkt) to remedy an obvious neglect of new plays in favour of big stage classics. The festival has also become more diverse: four members of this year’s (admittedly all-white) seven person jury are women; four of the 10 productions had a female director or playwright; and, for the second year, it’s hosting a festival within a festival under the English motto “Shifting Perspectives,” which seems to deliberately counteract the historical whiteness of Theatertreffen with two performances from the Middle East, two from Africa, one from Brazil, and one from Singapore. And it just so happens that three of the most intriguing productions this year are breaking that white male template. Most salient of all is Mittelreich, directed by Anta Helena Recke, a German woman of colour. Mittelreich was a musical stage adaptation of a novel that traces a family of Bavarian innkeepers through several generations, originally directed by Anna-Sophie Mahler and invited to the Theatertreffen two years ago. Recke has created an exact copy of that production but cast actors of colour to take all the roles in an attempt to subvert the normative gaze of white German theatergoers. It’s a must-see if for no other reason than to understand the fervent critical controversy it inspired at its Munich premiere last October. In Beute Frauen Krieg, director Karin Henkel tells the story of the Trojan War from the perspective of women who suffer its consequences, making use of contemporary adaptations of Euripides’ The Trojan Women and Iphigenia at Aulis. Different actresses take turns at playing Helena and Iphigenia, recalling a cascade of female tribulations and casting accusations at the men they blame for them. The production’s highlight may well be seeing its German actresses deploy their techniques alongside the dynamic Brit Kate Strong, who started dancing with the likes of William Forsythe and Johann Kresnick but has for years been rocking Germany’s spoken theatre with her charisma – appearing in multiple productions that have been invited to the Theatertreffen. (She performs in English in this bilingual production). Finally, Nobel prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek takes aim at more than just the patriarchy in Am Königsweg (The Royal Road), directed here with a lively touch by Falk Richter. Written in the wake of Trump’s election, the play is less an excoriation of ignorant, crass authoritarians (although that’s there) and more an examination of the inability of those who know better to stop them, with Europe coming under the microscope, too. Between these three Theatertreffen plays and the non-European offerings of “Shifting Perspectives”, you might finish the festival feeling pessimistic about the white patriarchies they critique in the world at large, but optimistic that at least one bastion of white patriarchy, the Theatertreffen itself, seems to be evolving, however slowly, into something else. ■ Beute Frauen Krieg May 6,7,8 Rathenau Hallen | Mittelreich May 17, 18 (with English surtitles) Deutsches Theater | Am Königsweg May 12, 13 (with English surtitles) Haus der Berliner Festspiele DON’T MISS Am Königsweg Diehard fans of Elfriede Jelinek will want to check out this staging of her new Trump-inspired play at the Deutsches Theater, directed by Stephan Kimmig, in order to compare it to the Falk Richter staging invited to the Theatertreffen. May 7, 13 (with English surtitles) The Players The Sophiensaele is hosting Haifa-born choreographer Edan Gorlicki’s exploration of gambling and showmanship, which won the jury and audience awards at the 6 tage frei festival in Stuttgart. May 9, 19:30 Potsdamer Tanztage Potsdam’s international dance festival is in its 28th year, offering dance and musical performances as well as workshops ranging in style from dance acrobatics to Bollywood. May 29-Jun 10 MAY 2018 35
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