Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 is pleased to present individual submissions created under the digital initiative…
Selection by Esther Slevogt, editor-in-chief (and co-founder) of nachtkritik.de
by Esther Slevogt
Country: Germany | Language: German | Year Of Inception: 2021
About Selection by Esther Slevogt, editor-in-chief (and co-founder) of nachtkritik.de
“moewe.live” is an adaption of classic literature for social media. Anton Chekhov’s classic “The Seagull”, written in 1895, serves as a working basis and thematic guide for the characters in “möwe.live”. The core themes are loneliness, longing and the failure to honestly communicate with others. Artistic director and mastermind of the Group Cosmea Spelleken conceives and stages explicitly for the digital space and consciously crosses dividing lines between different art forms. The boundaries between film and theater, public and private are explored anew every evening in live performances.
Interesting example to interweave virtual + analogue space:
“A Room Of Our Own”
by Swoush Lieu
(Film)
Outstanding (almost intoxicating) example of livestreams of theatre works as a work of art its their own right:
“Der Zauberberg” (after Thomas Mann / Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Based on Thomas Mann’s novel, director Sebastian Hartmann negotiates the question: “What is time?” and uses the medium of the live-staged livestream of his production of the novel material, which was originally created for the analog stage. This gives him the opportunity to leave linear figures and narrative modes behind, to turn times and forms into an intoxicating as well as visually powerful commentary on the loss of control and orientation in our time.
In Cologne the director Luk Perceval adapted “Oblomov” via Twitch and a Blog
From mid-October to mid-November 2021, he rehearsed his production of Ivan Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” at Schauspiel Köln – in a new translation by author Nele Stuhler. So far, so classic. Less classic was the publicity that the rehearsal process received from the fact that it was accompanied by a blog and the lead actress Luana Velis also kept a rehearsal diary on the streaming portal Twitch. Thus, even before its premiere, the production had an audience that could follow online how Velis refused to rehearse and – like her character, Oblomow(a) – decided to shift to staying home and doing nothing, participating in rehearsals only online at most. It was a decision that was very timely in the pandemic fall of 2021, and at the same time, very challenging to the routines of the theatre
The individual projects under Selection by Esther Slevogt, editor-in-chief (and co-founder) of nachtkritik.de include:
_ Punkt.Live, Moewe.Live, Staatstheater Nürnberg
_ Swoush Lieu, A Room of our Own, Kampnagel, Hamburg
_ Sebastian Hartmann, Magic Mountain (after Thomas Mann), Deutsches Theater Berlin
_ Luk Perceval, OBLOMOW REVISITED, (after Iwan Gontscharow), Schauspiel Köln
About Esther Slevogt
Esther Slevogt is theatre critic and editor-in-chief of the German online theater magazine nachtkritik.de, which she co-founded in 2007. She also writes books on theater history in the context of politics and aesthetics in the 20th century. An important focus of her work is the investigation of how digitalization influences and changes old cultural techniques such as theater. In this context, in 2013 she initiated the annual conference “Theater and the Net (“Theater und Netz”)”, which nachtkritik.de then developed together with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and has hosted annually since then (except the pandemian years 2020/21). Currently, she is leading the project “nachtkritik.plus” at nachtkritik.de, the expansion of nachtkritik.de with a streaming platform. nachtkritik.plus will also include a platform that collects knowledge about digital technologies in the performing arts and facilitate a broad exchange (in theory and practice) about them.
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
Explore projects created under Selection by Esther Slevogt, editor-in-chief (and co-founder) of nachtkritik.de from March 1st to March 15th 2022 on the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) website.
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