Theatre Wales’ co-production with DorkyPark and director Constanza Macras, Branches: The Nature of Crisis, is to be restaged at a popular forest in Berlin this August. Renamed Forest: The Nature of Crisis, the show will once again feature an interactive live-stream in the city centre, with live music. This version is produced by Macras’s company Dorky Park, and is co-produced by Berlin’s world-renowned Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz theatre.The original production was National Theatre Wales’ third and final contribution to the London 2012 Festival, and was a visually extraordinary event staged in Wepre Park, Flintshire, with a digitally interactive livestream on a high street in Cardiff, in September 2012. This new restaging, which reunites many of the original cast and creative team, will again explore the themes of transformation, ask how we can return to nature in the face of a financial crisis. The Müggelwald - an iconic Berlin forest - will be transformed into a contemporary art landscape in which the audience will encounter environmental activists, forest conservationists, economists, and freaks. On the production’s final performance, images from the forest will appear on huge billboards in Berlin’s city centre. The city audiences will be invited to interact with the action through their mobile and smartphones, and send text that will affect the world of the live performances. National Theatre Wales’ Artistic Director, John McGrath, said: “It’s fantastic that this ambitious and truly unique production, which premiered in a remote woodland in Flintshire, is now having a future life in Berlin. Constanza Macras is one of Europe’s leading dance-theatre makers, and it is only right that her extraordinary work should be given wider exposure. We are proud that National Theatre Wales is helping to create such bold new work, and that its success is recognised internationally.” |
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Monday, July 1, 2013 |
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