A new play by Karen Malpede translated from American English into German by Henning Bochert In the wake of the climate apocalypse,four rebels enact a daring planto give birth to something new –to beings other than we. A New York Times Critics’ Pick for “Theater This Season,” Fall 2019
The Fence, this “strange animal”, as its founder Jonathan Meth calls it, is a circle of professional friends all over the world, a club, really, that operates on a recommendation basis. Its focus lies on the work of playwriting, of developing plays, working with directors and dramaturgs.
In his text cycle HYBRIDE, Henning Bochert whizzes and promenades through the clandestine fissures of perception and secret boxes of memory. Rotten lies and dried cheese sandwiches, the secret grand-aunt and a castle in Scotland, fictitious cousins and the next generation: Sharp words piercing the silent bubble of self-deception.
From 10 to 13 October, 2019, the UNC (University of North Carolina) Chapel Hill hosts its second conference on theatre translation, organised by Adam Versenyi. To my great delight, one of the four translated plays presented there in staged readings is Bernhard Studlar’s IPLAY which I translated into English.
Eurodram in Vienna