Come with us
I finally got my chicken and chips at Hühnerhaus, sunny day so long queue. While ordering I remembered J’s words ‘Every time you speak German a German drops dead’. It’s my pronunciation apparently. Sat...
View ArticleLong day’s journey into Berlin.
We got up at 4 AM on a lovely pre-dawn in Dublin, hopped in a taxi, picked each other up at our respective houses, talked to the driver about what television series we were watching (Breaking Bad),...
View ArticleIreland adopts Günther Grosser
My blogs are supposed to discuss the festival from the perspective of an Irish artist living in Berlin and to speak of my experiences living in Berlin. I will be keeping the latter short today for...
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“Fuck was the best word. The most dangerous word. You couldn’t whisper it. Fuck was always too loud, too late to stop it, it burst in the air above you and fell slowly right over your head. There was...
View ArticleFrom Dublin with love.
And we’re back home, in Dublin, in Ireland, away from Berlin but still very much thinking of it. The trip for us was a wonderful experience. After a long tech session we rested up and the next day,...
View ArticleNach Berlin…
The last time I was in Berlin was in 2004. Two very blurry days that left me with a fractured sternum and the middle act of my second play TRANS-EURO EXPRESS. I’m hoping this visit is less painful but...
View ArticleGenerous German Audiences and Ticking Clocks
The Irish performers are enjoying the generosity of the German audience. Three standard curtain calls at the end of a rehearsed reading comes as a welcome surprise. Günther has put together a variety...
View ArticleRun 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...
View ArticleLast few bites…
It’s the last day of the festival already. The rehearsed reading of SHIBARI went really well last night. The cast all round were great. Very well chosen for each of the parts, I could easily imagine...
View ArticleGermans queued up for The Full Irish
Last night Brokentalker’s production – ‘I Have No Mouth’ ended with hundreds of balloons being released over the audience, this was also the ending of the festival. In the production it symbolised a...
View ArticleCome with us
I finally got my chicken and chips at Hühnerhaus, sunny day so long queue. While ordering I remembered J’s words ‘Every time you speak German a German drops dead’. It’s my pronunciation apparently. Sat...
View ArticleLong day’s journey into Berlin.
We got up at 4 AM on a lovely pre-dawn in Dublin, hopped in a taxi, picked each other up at our respective houses, talked to the driver about what television series we were watching (Breaking Bad),...
View ArticleIreland adopts Günther Grosser
My blogs are supposed to discuss the festival from the perspective of an Irish artist living in Berlin and to speak of my experiences living in Berlin. I will be keeping the latter short today for...
View ArticleHahaha
“Fuck was the best word. The most dangerous word. You couldn’t whisper it. Fuck was always too loud, too late to stop it, it burst in the air above you and fell slowly right over your head. There was...
View ArticleFrom Dublin with love.
And we’re back home, in Dublin, in Ireland, away from Berlin but still very much thinking of it. The trip for us was a wonderful experience. After a long tech session we rested up and the next day,...
View ArticleNach Berlin…
The last time I was in Berlin was in 2004. Two very blurry days that left me with a fractured sternum and the middle act of my second play TRANS-EURO EXPRESS. I’m hoping this visit is less painful but...
View ArticleGenerous German Audiences and Ticking Clocks
The Irish performers are enjoying the generosity of the German audience. Three standard curtain calls at the end of a rehearsed reading comes as a welcome surprise. Günther has put together a variety...
View ArticleRun 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...
View ArticleLast few bites…
It’s the last day of the festival already. The rehearsed reading of SHIBARI went really well last night. The cast all round were great. Very well chosen for each of the parts, I could easily imagine...
View ArticleGermans queued up for The Full Irish
Last night Brokentalker’s production – ‘I Have No Mouth’ ended with hundreds of balloons being released over the audience, this was also the ending of the festival. In the production it symbolised a...
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