DEEP WIVES, SHALLOW ANIMALS by Howard BARKER English Theatre Berlin & Sokol.M Productions & Compagnie Ephemeride F40-Kunsthöfe

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“By dignity I mean the prospect of a terrible indecency” Howard Barker

House arrest in her own home, once magnificent but now ravaged by a mysterious change whose the destructive impact continues to be felt, the Countess Strassa is now subject to the authority of those who, until recently, were her servants. We will never know the exact nature of the event which has produced such a change; at best can we measure the effects. The question posed by the new situation is not about the reversal of power relations – it’s already done - but of exceeding them, that is to say the appropriation of the other, body of the other, that Howard Barker defines by bluntly erotic terms: what is required of Strassa, is that she consents to be owned by the husband of her former maid. Abject perspective in the physical absence of the husband that makes the two women create a strange relationship of antipathy, rivalry, but also unexpected complicity, and gives rise to a tense dialogue, powerful, sharp as a razor, which opened excavation at the heart of the human and uncovers what makes it beat: desire, frustration, thirst for dignity.


Tickets: 14 euros / students 8 euros
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AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1946 in Dulwich in England, Howard Barker is stemming from the working classes and marked by the post-war period of his childhood.
Playwright, poet, painter, theoretician of the drama, Director, he writes for the stage (Theatre, Opera, Puppets) but also for television, radio and cinema. Howard Barker wrote over fifty plays, edited at Calder Publication in London; in France, his texts are mainly published in The Editions Théâtrales. Many have been played in France and Switzerland.
He is, for a time, associated with the political theatre of the Royal Court in London, as Edward Bond and David Edgar, then founded in 1987 with a group of actors directors friends, his own company "The Wrestling School" whose purpose was to produce exclusively his own plays.
His transgressive Theatre places at first the main philosophico-artistic questions of our time: the game between aesthetics and ethics, the crisis of the representation of the post-Auschwitz world. He is one of the most original voices of English Theatre and renews radically contemporary drama.

Patrick VERSCHUEREN,
Director Trained in the theater by Ingmar Lindt (Institute of Performing Arts, Gothenburg), he plays under the direction of Alain Bézu, Patrick Sandford, Alain Savoy, Raul Ruiz, Didier Mahieu Gersende Michel, Jean-Francois Philippe, Philippe Ripoll ... He founded the company Ephemeride where he staged "Free Fall" of Simon Yoland, "Outside, the exterior does not exist" of François Cervantes, "After Magritte" of Tom Stoppard, the Balkan triptych by Danilo Kis, Mirko Kovac and Jordan Plevnes, "Baal" and "Dialogues of exiles" of Bertolt Brecht, "Peep Show", "Tango Tangage" and "Passion of Margarita" by Jean-Marie Piemme, "Some Explicit Polaroid’s" by Mark Ravenhill. He also directed "Happiness is a new idea in Europe" of Jordan Plevnes, in Yale (USA), "Europa" of Gary / Kalisky at the Dramski Teatar in Skopje (Macedonia) and "Dom Juana", a female version of Dom Juan of Molière at the City Theater of Skopje (Macedonia). He currently leads the Factory Ephemeride, a former pulp mill paper converted into a place of residence for artists, located on a small island in Normandy (France).


Natasha MASHKEVICH (Strassa)
Graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Brussels, she continued her training with J. Waltzer, S. Lastreto, B. Rabey, N. Klein, M. Monnier, F. Fonteyne ... Of Russian origin, speaking 5 languages, Natasha plays in Belgium led by Ch Delmotte in "Ahmed the philosopher" of A. Badiou, by D. Bisconti in "Chair Amour" of V. Haim, by P. Plume in "the Seagull" of A. Chekhov, B. Marbaix in "Hernani"of V. Hugo ... In Paris, she worked under the direction of Franck De La Personne in a show "Labiche", with M.D Fréval in "Cow's Heart" in "Genesis" created by P. Kozeleff ... In Russia under the leadership of Mr. Feighin in "Poputchiki" of V. Shukshin. In television movies, various short films with: D. Amar, T. Loriot, C. Rittweger...But also with D. Farrugia for UNISEP. Natasha has played in "The Three Sisters" of A. Chekhov and staged it in the Vingtième Théâtre in Paris. She was cast in a feature film of G. Paquet-Brenner, movie coming out in 2010.
Recently, Natasha occurred in Paris with a monologue "The Moonshot Tape" in English, directed by J. Beswick produced by R. De Matos. (Show that has already had great success in Berlin in 2009).

Delphine LEDOUX (Card)
After five years spent at the academy of drama where she learnt how to act, dance, sing, and play, Delphine Ledoux was hired to perform in the musical “Machination” by Thierry Jamard, a musical that would tour for two years. Besides, she carried on her acting training at the Creation and Theatre school with Alain Knapp (ex-director of the TNS & la Rue Blanche Teacher) and integrated the Studio 34 (Philippe Brigaud and Claude Mathieu creation).
She is leading herself several theatre workshops for people in difficulties. She acted in plays by Courteline, Feydeau, Aristophane, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Copi, Amélie Nothomb and many others. She also worked on several productions like “Le Plaisir imagine” by Gilles Gleizes, “Ah! Comment dire?”
Sylvie Ollivier, “Des traces d?absence sur le chemin” by Françoise du Chaxel, or “Bar” by Spiro Scimone. She is currently working on the production of “Resistances- Paroles de femme’s creusoises” by Valérie Chatain. She also performed for television in several pilots, advertisements, and small roles. As far as cinema is concerned, besides having performed in different short and full-length films, she recently played in “Prête-moi ta main” with Alain Chabat by Eric Lartiguau. It?s the third common project with Natasha Mashkevich. They have already acted together in „La femme placard? By Chantal Alves-Malignon and shared the cast and the production of Anton Chekhov’s “Three sisters”.



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Das Blatt hat sich gewendet - Gräfin Strassa steht unter Hausarrest, die Bediensteten haben die Macht in ihrem prächtigen Palast übernommen, und sie erwartet die tiefste Erniedrigung: der Mann ihrer Zofe wird ihr neuer Herr. In jeder Hinsicht...

Howard Barker, Altmeister des kompromisslosen Theaters - Theater of Catastrophe lautet der selbst gewählte Titel für seine radikalen Annäherungen an die Tugenden der klassischen Tragödie - zeichnet in seinem neuesten Stück die seltsame Beziehung zwischen zwei Frauen, voller Abneigung, Rivalität aber auch unerwarteter Komplizenschaft. Seine Dialoge sind so scharf wie eh und je - Rasiermesser, die direkt ins Herz schneiden, um dort auf Begierde, Frustration und das Bedürfnis nach einem letzten Rest von Würde zu stoßen.

"Howard Barker - das englische Theatergenie mit den schlechten Manieren. Seine Stücke sind von fragwürdiger Moral und so komplex und gewalttätig, wie das Theater gerade noch gehen kann, ohne auf das Publikum zu schießen." The Guardian


Tickets: 14 euros / students 8 euros
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written by HOWARD BARKER
with Delphine Ledoux, Natasha Mashkevich, Bruno Rochette
directed by Patrick Verchueren
music by Ilya Mashkevich
produced by Roberto de Matos

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