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THE WELL-GREASED MUSCLE. ON THE MECHANICS OF THEATRE

  • Kampnagel, Hamburg

What is theatre? A kind of cybernetic machine hidden behind a curtain.

Why don’t you leave the theater and flog the props of your role to the junk dealer in the next side street? The director was a fiction anyway. Now look at the empty chair on the stage.

A man walks across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre.

I don’t like watching plays.


Gisela von Wysocki Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Peter Brook Gertrude Stein

Credits

Mechanical Prologue: The Curtain
Idea: Hannah Hurtzig, constructor: Nicolas Anatol Baginsky, dramaturgy: Ulrich Waller

Desire & Driver’s Permit. A Pornography. Elfriede Jelinek
Director: Ulrike Ottinger

he said it. Monologue. Gertrude Stein.
Director: Birgitta Linde

Then she sets a brand-new eye on her forehead. Gisela von Wysocki
Director: Thea Dumsch

Madam I´m Adam. Elfriede Jelinek and text snippets from Lorca, Botho Strauß, Djuna Barnes, Anton Chekhov
Director: Barbara Bilabel

Postlude: Mechanical Diva
Constructor: Hinnerk Schmidt

Concept: Hannah Hurtzig and Dr. Ursula Keller

Production: Kampnagel, Sommertheater, 1989