THE EVENT by John Clancy English Theatre Berlin: David Calvitto F40-Kunsthöfe

Written and directed by John Clancy
With David Calvitto

John Clancy’s THE EVENT is a theatre masterpiece and David Calvitto performs it with the panache and power of a true artist.

The highlight of The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 and Adelaide Fringe 2010
Also highlight in Germany at Festival in Kiel > Nachtkritik: Review in German

What if everything we believe and experience is an illusion-a fantasy designed to make us forget all that’s important and create a kind of collective amnesia? Are we all alone on our own private stages? Is there anything out there in the darkness? Are we who we say we are, or are we just pretending?

A deceptively simple piece of theatre, which playfully but profoundly leads us to question, not only the nature of reality, but the very nature of existence itself. A man standing in a pool of light wittily deconstructs the theatrical experience while offering parallel insight into modern life.

"An intelligent and exhilarating monologue, performed with a conjurer's elan by David Calvitto .... He stands on stage and deconstructs everything he is doing – the entire theatre-going experience. It's funny and cute, but just when you think you've got the joke, the monologue lurches into darker, more invigorating territory, and you start to realise that the show is deadly serious. ... The Event is a wake-up call to anyone who has ever wondered why it is that we know all the details of Jordan and Pete's marriage break up, but can't say how many Iraqis have died in the Iraq war. It deliberately and cruelly destroys illusion: it makes us see how the trick is done, and challenges us to rise from our safe seats in the comforting dark and protest." The Guardian

"The brilliant Calvitto, never better than in this hugely demanding show, gazes out at the audience, asking if we, too, despite everything, sometimes catch a sense of shape or meaning or coherence beneath all the apparent chaos. But we remain silent, because – as Clancy and Calvitto point out – that is what the convention of the event demands." The Scotsman / Edinburgh


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Tickets: 18 euros / students 10 euros
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Das Highlight der Theaterfestivals in Edinburgh, Adelaide und jetzt in Kiel. > Lesen Sie, was die Nachtkritik dazu sagt

Ein Mann steht im gleißenden Licht auf der Bühne; ein Schauspieler.
Er spricht zu uns über sich und über uns und über die Situation, und wir dachten immer, wir wären uns im Klaren darüber, was das hier ist, Bühne, Schauspieler, Zuschauer, aber haben wir uns vielleicht täuschen lassen?

Ist alles ganz anders? Wie anders…?

John Clancys THE EVENT ist ein extrem cleveres Stück Meta-Theater mit den denkbar einfachsten Mitteln, und eben aus dieser Simplizität wächst die enorme Überzeugungskraft. Im Idealfall verlassen wir nach THE EVENT das Theater in der Überzeugung, unsere Zeit verschwendet zu haben – ohne es zu bereuen


Tickets: 18 Euro / Schüler &b Studenten 10 Euro
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