Run Gary Run

So I found the theatre very easily on Wednesday evening and got to see the reading of Carmel Winter’s B FOR BABY performed by two excellent Irish actors who are based here in Berlin, Jon Smith and Ciara Goss. Afterwards I learned that both of these guys are also appearing in the reading of my play SHIBARI and I was very pleased as they really managed to bring Carmel’s characters to full and quirky life even in the context of a reading.
Yesterday (Thursday), my partner, Aenne, arrived from Dublin to join me for the next few days. She’s in the midst of producing (and preparing to play Elizabeth) in a new Irish production of Schiller’s MARY STUART, and is enjoying a brief break from prep to check out Berlin. In the afternoon we had a wander around the Pergamonmuseum and then sampled another one of the restaurants on Bergmannstrasse near English Theatre Berlin.
Brokentalkers opened there Show HAVE I NO MOUTH last night in ETB. I saw this in the Dublin Theatre Festival last year and it was one of the highlights for me. I found it a very inventive, intense and moving experience to behold and the audience here last night seemed to have a similar reaction. The show is running for two more performances tonight (Friday) and tomorrow. If you’re in Berlin, you should come check it out.
Afterwards I hung out with the Brokentalkers gang and we made a stab at wiping out the ETB bar of Jameson and ginger. I hope they have some left for tonight…
Very much looking forward to meeting the rest of the cast for the reading of SHIBARI this evening. The play was a challenge to cast in Dublin as it features a fairly ecclectic set of multicultural characters. Here in Berlin, the reading will Feature Performers from America, Japan, Germany, and of course a couple from Ireland. The play is a blackly-comic drama set in contemporary post-boom Dublin. It’s a bit funny, a bit sexy, and a little bit twisted. If you’re in Berlin today come and see how that all works! And if you’re reading this from afar, check back tomorrow and I’ll tell you how it went…