http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/ Current Writing, the German literature blog of the Goethe-Institut New York Library, offers an up-to-date overview of activities and initiatives that promote and support German literature in the United States. Here you will find links to high caliber literary events nationwide, to reviews of new publications on the German book market and to programs advancing translation. se http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/templates/current-writing/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/ 100 21 http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/archives/428-Staged-Reading-of-Dea-Lohers-Bluebeard.html Staged Reading<br /> 5/21/12<br /> 7:30pm<br /> Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building<br /> 5 East 3rd Street/Bowery<br /> New York, NY 10003<br /> In English<br /> Free admission<br /> Tel.: +1 (212) 439-8700<br /> <br /> <!-- s9ymdb:365 --><img class="serendipity_image_left" width="110" height="60" src="http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/uploads/Loher-3-c-Alexander-Paul-Englert-web_small440x240.serendipityThumb.JPG" title="Alexander Paul Englert" alt="" /> Theater director <strong>Daniel Brunet </strong>brings young German playwright <a href="http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_glossary&id=221&Itemid=67" title="Loher"><strong>Dea Loher</strong></a>’s <em>Bluebeard - Hope of Women </em>to Wyoming Building for a staged reading on Monday, May 21. Brunet is more than familiar with Loher’s work, having been awarded a 2010 PEN Translation Grant for his translation of <em>The Last Fire</em>, and also having translated <em>Innocence </em>(<em>Unschuld</em>), which was given a staged reading last year at the Goethe-Institut New York.<br /> <br /> Dea Lohers <a href="http://xtc.schultheatertexte.de/media/products/0797540001254130716.pdf" title="Blaubart"><em>Blaubart - Hoffnung der Frauen</em></a> uses the classic tale of the man who murders the women he loves to comment ironically on modern women's concept of "total" love. The cast features Christen Clifford*, Melissa Hurst*, Sheila Joon*, Johanna McKeon, Julia Moss*, Rebecca Nelson*, Diana Ruppe* and Jesse Paul Wilson (*Actors' Equity Association members).<br /> <br /> Award-winning playwright Dea Loher, born in Bavaria in 1964, is one of Germany’s most widely produced contemporary playwrights. Her nearly 20 plays have been awarded virtually every major award in the German-speaking theater world and have been translated into 28 different languages. Loher lives in Berlin.<br /> Goethe-Institut New York | Current Writing Blog nospam@example.com (Edna McCown) Events, 2012-05-15T14:36:00Z http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/wfwcomment.php?cid=428 0 http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/rss.php?version=1.0&type=comments&cid=428 http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/archives/426-Aporia-Theater-presents-Woyzeck.html Performance<br /> 05/17 - 5-27/2012<br /> Th – Su 8:00pm<br /> Sat 8:00pm &amp; 10:00pm<br /> Access Theater<br /> 380 Broadway/White St.<br /> New York, NY 10013<br /> Tel.: +1 (212) 966-1047 <br /> <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3390997565?ref=ebtnebtckt" title="tkts">Tickets</a><br /> <br /> <!-- s9ymdb:363 --><img class="serendipity_image_left" width="110" height="79" src="http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/uploads/woyzeck.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="(c) Aporia Theater" /> <a href="http://www.xlibris.de/Autoren/Buechner/Biographie/Seite1" title="GB">Georg Büchner</a> 's classic, ever-modern drama, <em><a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/419/1" title="Woyzeck">Woyzeck</a></em>, receives a new production by Aporia Theater, founded by Columbia University alumni in 2007. Aporia devotes itself to compelling original work and <em>Woyzeck </em>is presented here in a new translation by Artistic Director Sarah Wansley, with original music by David Marenberg. The play previews on May 17, opening on May 18.<br /> <br /> Translator/director Wansley has stated: “With this new translation, I created a <em>Woyzeck </em>that is accessible to a contemporary American audience, yet remains grounded in the circumstances of its original time and place. To this end, we are using an English text with songs in both English and German...I want the audience to experience the strangeness of the original German text.” The cast features Lydia Blaisdell, Ugo Chukwu, Alexander Cook, Greg Engbrecht, Eloïse Eonnet, Graham Halstead, Grant Harrison, Rosa Gilmore, Miles Jacoby and Joseph Rende. Goethe-Institut New York | Current Writing Blog nospam@example.com (Edna McCown) Events, 2012-05-14T18:07:00Z http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/wfwcomment.php?cid=426 0 http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/rss.php?version=1.0&type=comments&cid=426