52nd Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin Rivka Jacobson 29/06/2015 What is Theatertreffen? As Rivka Jacobson put it "every year, a seven-member jury zips across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, taking in scads of th...
In conversation with Susanne Kennedy Rivka Jacobson 19/06/2015 (A summary of Q&A held with the Theatertreffen 20 visitors) Susanne Kennedy is a leading figure in European theatre. Still young at just thirty...
Nora Amin in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 08/06/2015 Nora Amin, an Egyptian theatre director, performer, chorographer, and theatre educator. In 2000 she founded Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Cair...
In conversation with Ivan Panteleev Rivka Jacobson 04/06/2015 Ivan Panteleev’s production of Waiting For Godot* is among the 10 ‘most remarkable’ 2014 productions and fittingly has been awarded the Theatertreffen...
Face to face with John von Düffel: German theatre and adaptation of novels for the stage Rivka Jacobson 04/06/2015 John von Düffel is a successful novelist, dramaturg and Professor of dramatic writing. Over the past two decades John von Düffel has offered a myriad...
Waiting for Answers: In conversation with Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch Rivka Jacobson 04/06/2015 Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch recently featured alongside one another as Vladimir and Estragon, the troubled twosome at the heart of Beckett’s Waiting...
Warum läuft Herr R. Amok (Why Does Mr R Run Amok?) Plays to See 27/05/2015 Susanne Kennedy’s production resembles a sadistic human experiment – just as sadistic towards its characters as the petit bourgeois conditions which t...
Warten auf Godot (Waiting for Godot) Plays to See 27/05/2015 A spotlight flits across a light-coloured width of material on Mark Lammert’s set, which contracts as if to form the hub of the world, disappearing in...
John Gabriel Borkman Plays to See 27/05/2015 In the interpretation of Karin Henkel and designer Katrin Nottrodt, the realms of upstairs and downstairs, described by Ibsen as strictly separated li...
die unverheiratete (the unmarried) Plays to See 27/05/2015 Three women, three generations, an unresolved past that stinks of betrayal and blind obedience: “the unmarried” connects April 1945 with the present. ...