Quotes matching 'berliner ensemble'
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October 27, 2009
washingtonpost.com
"The Chalk Circle,"
which itself inspired Bertolt Brecht's"The Caucasian Chalk Circle,"
among other works. Mee sets the action in Berlin at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Woolly Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz plays revered German playwright and director Heiner Muller ("Hamletmachine") -- a highly fictionalized version of him, says Shalwitz -- who staged plays under the East German regime, and became at one point artistic director of the fabled Berliner Ensemble founded by Brecht."Muller's issues in the play are preserving his theater in a volatile political climate, and I can so identify with that,"
Read more: Backstage: What's going around in Charles Mee's 'Full Circle' at Woolly Mammoth | In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Woolly mammoth, and Heiner Muller
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December 14, 2008
Wikipedia
"German theater has lost its queen,"
said Claus Peymann of the Berliner Ensemble, whose theatre featured Hoppe's last performance, in Bertolt Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in December 1997. In one of her last interviews Hoppe stated,"I have a go at happiness every day. That takes discipline, a virtue every halfway decent actor should have."
Read more: Marianne Hoppe | In this article: Marianne Hoppe, Gustav Grundgens, Berlin, Blanche DuBois, Berliner Ensemble, A Streetcar Named Desire, Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Heiner Muller, and Tennessee Williams
