Published on Apr 18, 2016

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: July 8-9, 2016

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 100, 200, 320, 400, 480, 580

Features: The Deutsches Theater in Berlin is a theatrical institution with a permanent and highly-acclaimed ensemble. From July 8th-9th, The Deutsches Theater in Berlin will presents Waiting for Godot at Drama theatre of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

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 into the gorge of a funnel in which two men stand. Vladimir and Estragon (Samuel Finzi, Wolfram Koch) stare out of the crater's hole as if they had just landed on a strange planet. In this restricted area and free zone of pure acting, limited by black curtains, only the imagination is real. Two have-nots who possess neither shoe nor hat, neither radish nor turnip. No props to hold on to. Pozzo and Lucky (Christian Grashof, Andreas Dohler) also climb out of this primal hole, equally bereft of all utensils: no rope, no whip, no suitcase, nothing at all. In Ivan Panteleev's 'Waiting for Godot', there is a second hand-writing underneath the openly legible one, as in a palimpsest: the signature of Dimiter Gotscheff, to whom this production was dedicated. For Panteleev and his actors, it's all entertainment and running gag, chasing across the funnel's sloping walls. Finzi and Koch are masters of self-re-enactment, both visionaries of the present and bearers of hidden history, virtuosos of stage business, experts of the eternal now and sealers of time.

The Deutsches Theater in Berlin
The Deutsches Theater in Berlin is a theatrical institution with a permanent and highly-acclaimed ensemble. The Deutsches Theater repertoire comprises some 50 productions. Each season the DT celebrates some 30 premieres -- around twelve on the main stage and eight in the Kammerspiele.

Signature productions, ongoing collaborations with established and up-and-coming directors, and faith in the abilities of his spirited and talented ensemble: these are the cornerstones of Ulrich Khuon's artistic concept for the Deutsches Theater. Khuon has brought on board directors with distinctive directing styles, including: Andreas Kriegenburg, Stephan Kimmig, Nicolas Stemann, Jette Steckel, and Dimiter Gotscheff, who died in 2014.

The theatre's repertoire includes both classics and modern classics by writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Chekhov, Goethe, Gerhart Hauptmann, Friedrich Hebbel, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Schiller, Shakespeare and Frank Wedekind. At the same time, the DT stages works by contemporary playwrights like Dea Loher, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Elfriede Jelinek – including many world premieres. Once a year the Deutsches Theater plays host to the Autorentheatertage, a two-week-long festival of contemporary drama.

The DT ensemble includes well-known actresses such as Maren Eggert, Corinna Harfouch and Susanne Wolff and prominent actors like Samuel Finzi, Ulrich Matthes, Bernd Moss and Bernd Stempel. They're joined by young talents such as Daniel Hoevels, Alexander Khuon and Ole Lagerpusch.

Each year the Deutsches Theater takes its productions on tour and performs at festivals in places like New York, South America, Japan, and across Europe. A series of television broadcasts of DT productions and frequent invitations to Berlin's prestigious Theatertreffen festival testify to the theatre's continuing success. In an annual poll conducted by influential German theatre magazine Theater heute, critics voted the DT "Theatre of the Year" in 2005 and 2008. In 2010 and 2015 the Deutsches Theater was invited to the renowned Berliner Theatertreffen, in 2010 with the world premiere Thieves (Diebe) by Dea Loher directed by Andreas Kriegenburg, in 2015 with Waiting for Godot (Warten auf Godot) by Samuel Beckett directed by Ivan Panteleev.

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