A small feather flutters from Robert Jägerhorn’s hands. I think he has just set free a caged bird I’ve seen him draw on a deck of playing cards with a sharpie just seconds before. I can’t be too sure though, because the moment is gone. All I’m left with is a content feeling of awe […]
Author archives: annegret
Dramaturge’s note: Iphigenia in Tauris
At the Rose Playhouse on London’s Bankside, an English translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 18th Century German classic, Iphigenia in Tauris, can be seen (and heard) for the first time in a staged setting. The story is based on an ancient Greek myth but when it comes to gender issues, the piece could not be more current. The […]
Podcast, ahoy!
If like me you love peppering party conversations with QI sciolism until people start offering to drive you home, you probably know that bit about Alexander Graham Bell and the word “Ahoy!” “Ahoy!” was apparently the first word that was ever uttered over a phone line. As much as I wished that this word would be reinstated as […]
John Gabriel Borkman
Rebecca Jacobson and I sat down with theatre blogger and academic Holger Syme to discuss Karin Henkel’s production of “John Gabriel Borkman”. We talk about Ibsen’s play and discuss masks, music and monstrous physicality. John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen directed by Karin Henkel, Design: Katrin Nottrodt, costumes: Nina von Mechow, music: Arvild J. Baud, lighting: Annette […]