In July, the Kammerspiele Munich present the immersive, six-hour performance RESPUBLICA byŁukasz Twarkowski and the ensemble. The production is based on an exciting social experiment.
The translation of the German supertitles for this show was accomplished by Bochert Translations in collaboration with Arneta Aley (Lithuanian titles) and Sprachspiel.
The international theater festival Theaterformen is taking place in Braunschweig this year. On this occasion, Vivek Shraya’s performance HOW TO FAIL AS A POPSTAR will be presented.
The translation for the German supertitles of the show was completed by Bochert Translations.
In Jim Grimsley’s new play, a daughter and her father travel north from the South of the U.S. in the near future to escape from the uninhabilitable hot regions there. On their way, they meet another partial family and finally decide to travel on together into an uncertain future.
In a dense and threatening atmosphere, the play approaches the migration aspect of the climate catastrophy, postulating that we will only be able to master this troublesome journey with the help of trust and solidarity.
The German translation from English was accomplished by Henning Bochert.
After the German translation of Eve Leigh’s MIDNIGHT MOVIE was presented as a staged reading by Verena Regensburger at the Stückemarkt of the Theatertreffen 2021, the Rowohlt Theaterverlag commissioned the translation of Leigh’s text WILDFIRE ROAD. We just delivered this under the title FLÄCHENBRAND. The German premiere is scheduled for September 2022.
It is my outstanding pleasure and privilege to translate THE TRIALS (DIE PROZESSE), the newest text by British playwright Dawn King. The play is a commission by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, its world premiere is scheduled for 04 June 2021 at the Bürgerbühne Düsseldorf.
In a not too distant future, a jury of children and teenagers are to decide over the fate of the generations of their parents. The climate catastrophe has happened, the ressources of an overheating earth will not suffice for its too many human inhabitants. With the trials, the former generation is judged by the future one for its responsibility for this catastrophe, the guilty ones are executed: fewer mouths to feed.
With her great success FOXFINDER (finalist of the Suzan Smith Blackburn Prize 2013/14) and her play CHIFFREN, King is already a name even on German stages.
Directed by Adrian Figueroa, designed by Irina Schicketanz, and with a large cast of 15 characters, the production is certainly something to look forward to.
The rehearsals are in their final stage, the batteries of the tablet computers are being charged so that everything will be ready for the opening of DIE MASCHINE IN MIR (VERSION 1.0) at the Burgtheater on New Year’s Eve. You can already find a trailer here:
Quite spontaneously, the Burgtheater in Vienna decide to produce a show for New Year’s Eve: Michael Maertens will play a monologue by Irish company Dead Centre and Mark O’Connell (original title: To Be A Machine). Everything is Corona, everything is digital.
The text deals with transhumanism, with humans and machines and how both merge, and with our old desire to defeat death.
Please find more information on the Burgtheater website.
The German translation of the text was accomplished by Bochert Translations.
With her play PHANTASMAGORIA, south Indian playwright Deepika Arwind sheds a light on the shift to the right in Indian politics since 2014. At that time, a nationalist religious party took the lead, spreading a political climate of fear ever since. Threats and other forms of discrimination against Muslims, for example, dominate the (dis)course pushed aggressively by the media.
In the play, an established journalist invites to political opponents to an independently organized public debate to reestablish the political dialogue beyond aggressive and populist tones in the media. We follow the two women during the one hour they spend, together with two other characters, in a room preparing for the talk. While the encounter is respectful and reserved at first, the situation in the arena outside grows increasingly out of control, and the exchange between the two political actresses becomes ever more manipulative, tense and threatening.
Even though the play is set in India, it avoids references to existing places, parties, names in order to reflect on the shift to the right in politics worldwide that we have been witnessing for years which allows for transfers to other contexts.
The dense text with its strong characters will be presented in April 2021 during the GLOBAL Festival of the independent Munich Teamtheater Tankstelle, together with other plays from Bavaria’s partner region Karnataka in India. The translation from English into German is being completed by Bochert Translationsa and is supported by the Indian Embassy in Berlin and the Indian Councili for Cultural Relations (ICCR).
After a lot of time (thanks, Corona) for meticulous polishing, after a wonderful lectorate (thank you, Rowohlt), the beautiful text by Eve Leigh is now available in German from Rowohlt Theater. I am very much looking forward to see it produced!
In June 2020, an initiative of 300 theatermakers in the U. S. published a statement adressing the “White American Theater” and quoting August Wilson’s historical 1996 speech. For publication of the statement in the July 2020 edition of the Theater heute magazine, Bochert Translations translated this statement into German.