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A new form of theatre

May 9, 2005 on 6:41 pm by Thomas | In Berlin Scene | 2 Comments

I encountered an interesting form of theatre last friday. I walked by Zionskirchplatz and met two men with a mediaeval looking flag built out of a broom and a paper.

“Come in, the performance is about to begin!” they told me, and: “We have drinks”. The prospect of a little entertainment with a beer in my hand convinced me. I paid 2€ and entered an empty basement with few chairs and little decoration. I was the first one and alone.

After they had lured in three more people, the doors were closed and the lights turned off. And they started one of the strangest and scariest theatres I had ever seen:
One man entered, disguided with a dirty piece of plastic that turned his face into a creepy mask. He burnt the flag and sang a song out of tune that ended with “You know how to stop me, but you don´t have the discipline”.

Watch a video! (Poor quality, opens in Real Player, taken with a mobile phone)

The play was called “The faboulous steering wheel of Amelie” and lasted for about 40 minutes. I experienced an impressive interpretation of an lunatic father who punishes his daughter with his own ambitions. And the way she might experience it: Violent, repitive, whiny and insane. Scarily close to me he haunted through the room.

A very convincing performance of two actors who do that every night with different plays. If you are interested, walk by Zionskirchplatz around haöf past nine and let them lure you in!

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Yesterday, I was lured in to this great theatre by coincidence.

I have seen the “natural study of the pillendreher and the grottenolm”.

It was one of the most accurate plays I have seen in the last 24 month, and I have, in all modesty, a good taste.

I wish the three “theatre bitches” as they call them selves, all best luck in the world, for in my view their work is both important and of deep insight and quality.

The grottenolm was eating his own shit, while the pillendreher was meditating about “my pills, my cosmetics, my garage, my stock market shares”.

Both, the pillendreher and the gottenolm, where monitored by a scientist who carried a suitcase.
He comments that they are two of the most interesting species in evolution.

For they were hold unter arrest of scientific observation, the scientist tried to give them back their freedom (i.e. let them leave the theatre and move on to real life at ZIONSKIRCHPLATZ). But both, the grottenolm and the pillendreher, returned soon. It seemed they were not yet ready for freedom and, as the scientist comment, “the degree of freedom they can take at this moment is to die happy in prision”.

Long live the three theatre bitches from ZIONSKIRCHPLATZ; and I honestly wish they perform on stage of the DEUTSCHE OPER soon!

Comment by Tim O — 9/6/2005 #
Wow, so awesome that you saw it, too!

Comment by Stylewalker — 10/6/2005 #