{"id":11183,"date":"2020-04-08T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/?p=11183"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:26:13","slug":"anders-als-wir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/2020\/04\/anders-als-wir\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDERS ALS WIR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new play by Karen Malpede<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

translated from American English into German by Henning Bochert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of the climate apocalypse,
four rebels enact a daring plan
to give birth to something new \u2013
to beings other than we.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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A New York Times Critics\u2019 Pick for \u201cTheater This Season,\u201d Fall 2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Play<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After the Deluge, the privileged live in a hermetically sealed Dome. But, the underground aquifer and food supply are running out. Outbreaks of hate are on the rise and surveillance is extreme. Two young women, an obstetrician-gynecologist and a neuroscientist, her lover, join forces with a refugee janitor who was once a physician, and an elderly renowned linguist, in an unlikely plot to create a new, post-Homo sapiens species, other than we. The fate of life on earth hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her characters are strong and fascinating, her contexts brilliant and horrifying, and her tone always warm and, in the end, loving.<\/p>\n– Andrew Solomon, Ex-Vorsitzender des PEN American Centers<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A utopian vision for a reconfigured race that will be \u201cOther Than We\u201d \u2013 hybrid creatures, human\/non-human that will adapt and sustain themselves in the treacherous territory outside of The Dome. Malpede uses image-rich language and striking stage pictures to transmit an urgent call for global unity, imagination, transformation, and action.<\/p>\n\u2013 Cindy Rosenthal, The Theatre Times<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A playful but powerful meditation on urgent philosophical questions . . . consciousness, language, evolution, life and death.<\/p>\n\u2013 Jo Mispel, Motherhood Later<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Simultaneously unsettling, surreal and hopeful . . . a post-apocalyptic scenario in which survivors have a chance to remake the world . . . a grand vision, born of catastrophe, but with the possibility of triumph.<\/p>\n\u2013 Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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It questions the origins of consciousness and thrives on the thrill of creating a better human species . . .  Can the quartet of fugitives accomplish their outlandish goal?<\/p>\n\u2013 Lena Zeldovitch, Woman Around Town<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Karen Malpede<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(Co-Founder, Writer\/director) author\/director of 19 plays: Other Than We<\/em>, Blue Valiant<\/em>, Dinner During Yemen<\/em>, part of \u201cImagine: Yemen\u201d at The Irene Diamond Signature Theater, 2018, publication Kenyon Review, Oct, 2018; Extreme Whether<\/em>, LaMama, 2018, Paris ARTCOP21, 2015, Theater for the New City, 2014; The Beekeeper\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, Theater for the New City, 2016 (revival), premiered 1995 at the Festival of World Drama, Veroli, Italy. \u201cOne of America\u2019s most prominent political playwrights,\u201d Marvin Carlson.  Her seven books include Plays in Time: The Beekeeper\u2019s Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether <\/em>(Intellect, 2017), editor: Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays <\/em>(Northwestern, 2011), A<\/em> Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays <\/em>(Marlboro, 1987), editor: Women in Theater: Compassion & Hope <\/em>(Drama Book, 1984). She is a frequent contributor to The Kenyon Review; short fiction and essays on theater, ecology and literature are published in TriQuarterly, Confrontations, The Drama Review, New Theatre Quarterly, New York Times, anthologies. McKnight National Playwrights Fellowship, Ludwig Vogelstein and NYFA (then, CAPS) playwriting awards. She is adjunct Associate Professor of Theater Arts and Environmental Justice at John Jay College, CUNY. MFA, Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bartenieff, Moore | Foto: Beatriz Schiller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bartenieff, Daly, Moore, Birnbaum | Foto: Beatriz Schiller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daly, Birnbaum | Foto: Beatriz Schiller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birnbaum, Daly | Foto: Beatriz Schiller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daly, Birnbaum | Foto: Beatriz Schiller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Bilder der Urauff\u00fchrungsinszenierung November\/Dezember 2020 im “La Mama”-Theater in New York City | Fotos: Beatriz Schiller<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Info sheet PDF<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

[CV and synopsis quoted from theaterthreecollaborative.org<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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