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Review: “Schwarz gemacht” and the White Audience
One attends a play about an Afro-German living in the years of Nazism and Jim Crow not because of the dramaturgy. One buys the ticket because of the topic’s near absence in the German discourse. This is not a review of the play, but rather a continuation of the discussion with the cast that followed. As one of the cast-members remarked, it all comes down to audience: “Black folks probably wouldn’t go to the theater to see this play in the U.S., let alone have enough money for the ticket. And here, we have a white audience. So, who are we really talking to here? Who is seeing this play?”…[Read more!]
Interview: Three Dimensions of Integration
It’s easy (and admittedly amusing) to reduce expats to stereotypes, as if we all neatly fall into one or the other category based on which country we hail from, what we do for a living, or where we party and eat brunch. Reality is always more nuanced and multi-dimensional. Dare we even say, interesting?…[Read more!]
Happy Weekend: Will the True Berliners Please Stand Up
English Theatre Berlin‘s new piece by Daniel Brunet asks the hot question, ‘Who is a real Berliner?’. ‘Echter Berliner!!! Ihr nicht fuck you’ is a documentary theater production which addresses the curious tension between expats and immigrants, as if these categories were ever clear or even exclusive. Putting the product of 60 interviews on stage is brilliant, hanging prejudices out to dry when the last place we need them is in the camp of the outsiders…[Read more!]
Happy Weekend: “It’s not about integration”, or isn’t it?
Tonight at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, İmran Ayata und Neco Çelik will present the opening of their newest play, “Liga der Verdammten” (League of the Damned), tackling the dynamic configuration of players and fans in Kreuzberg’s very own “Multi-Kulti” football league, Türkisempor. Originally formed by Berlin’s marginalized ‘guest workers’ just 35 years ago, its reputation proceeds it, as do the stereotypes…[Read more!]
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