[Invitation by Eleni Konstantatou and Ria Papadopoulou]
Dear friends,
We proudly present you our performance based on the one act play of Tennessee Williams “Talk to me like the rain.. and let me listen”:
Talk to me like the rain.. and let me listen
31. March 2012 | 20.00h
01. April 2012 | 19.00h
TheaterSpielRaum Bethanien
Duration: 30 min.
© Eleni Konstantatou
In “Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen” Tennessee Williams guides us through an elegy concerning human relationships and loneliness. He splits his own contradictory interior monologue into two unnamed characters, Man and Woman, supposedly a couple which is living together in a cold-water flat. She is a drunk. He is wasting away to nothing. There is intimacy between them – the intimacy of desperation. She woke up that morning in some random hotel in a bathtub full of ice cubes. No idea how she got there. She found her way home. Meanwhile, he has drunk nothing but water for 3 days. He stares out the window. He is wasting away. On purpose.
We started our work on “Talk to me like the rain...and let me listen” as a university project of the postgraduate course “Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum” at the Technical University of Berlin. Already during the project we both got intimately involved with the play and totally connected to the idea of analysing the piece through video projection at multiple levels. After the final presentation of the project we decided to go one step further and bring the project on stage. After receiving a residency at TheaterSpielRaum Bethanien, we built a very creative team and enjoyed the intense six weeks of working together.
Our crew is glad and happy to present to you the final outcome of these six weeks.
Please be invited to our after performance party!
TheaterSpielRaum Bethanien
Bethanien-Südflügel
Mariannenplatz 2A, Aufgang 2B
10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Direction: Antonio Cerezo
Dramaturgy: Antonio Cerezo, Eleni Konstantatou, Ria Papadopoulou
Text: Tennessee Williams
With:
Julian Hackenberg
Lena Schumacher
Stage Design & Video: Eleni Konstantatou, Ria Papadopoulou
Costume Design: Eleni Konstantatou, Ria Papadopoulou
Music and Light: Lluís Enguix
Project Mentors: Marsha Ginsberg & Heiko Kalmbach
Production: Eleni Konstantatou, Ria Papadopoulou
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