HAU Presents New Program Focused on the “Privacy” Theme
There will be New Plays on Hebbel Theatre, from the 13th to the 24th of April
April 09th, 2016
HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) presented a new program, starting on the 13th, and running until the 24th of April. The main focus was the theme of “Privacy,” and there were 3 different events: a dialogue, a play and a performance. All these events had directors and contemporary artists from different nationalities, and were open the international community, because almost all of them were in English, with German subtitles.
The first event, on April 13th, at 19:00, was the “Über Liebe and Revolution und die Notwendigkeit, sich zu verlieben” (“About Love and Revolution and the Need to Fall in Love”). This was a dialogue, with Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat, about what it would be like to ask about love to important revolutionaries like Lenin or Che Gevara. With him, there will be the couple Gabriele Rollnik and Karl-Heinz Dellwo.
The second event was a Portuguese play, called “Anthony and Cleopatra”. It was a recreation of the famous love story between Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, immortalized by Shakespeare. This piece was directed by one of the most important voices on the theatre scene in Portugal, Tiago Rodrigues, and two choreographers/performers, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz.
The third event was the premiere of a Dutch play, called “Privacy”. It focused on important questions of our time, like where does our privacy start, and end, and if are we more likely to prescind our own sense of intimacy, in this digital era, or not. The concept belongs to Ward Weemhoff and Wine Dierickx, the couple that also did this performance.
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- For more information, you can access the site: http://english.hebbel-am-ufer.de/
Beatriz Nunes, Berlin Global
