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• Performance-lecture + artist talk
• work-in-progress
• energetische Modernisierung

• Fr., 21.07.2017, 20:00

THE LAB following 'Ich kann nicht atmen'

Taking its cue from Václav Havel's essay 'The Power of the Powerless', the performance-lecture gives an insider's account - bitter and savagely satirical - of what it's like to live inside the scam that various lobbyists, eco-hypocrites and political pygmies have defined as energetische Modernisierung. THE LAB invites audiences to discover work-in-progress and discuss it directly with MC Jabber and Daniel Brunet.

• 1What do you do if you can't do anything?
• 2 Daniel Brunet, Produzierende künstlerischer Leiter, English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center
• 3 Inga Anderson

THE LAB is the artist and audience development series at English Theatre Berlin. Founded by Daniel Brunet in 2003, it offers Berlin-based writers and performers an opportunity to share their work-in-progress with an audience and receive feedback in the form of a post-performance discussion.

About the Venue

English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center

English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center is the German capital’s only producing and presenting organization in the Hauptstadt expressly dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as the working language. Our year-round programming comprises the Producing Series – Made in Berlin, the Presenting Series, as well as our Performing Series and Pedagogy Series. We are a proud member of Berlin’s freie Szene, the independent performing arts community, and are currently developing platforms to share our work within Germany and abroad. We consciously use theater and performance as living, discursive forms to bring artists and audiences into conversation with each other about our shared city and the greater world we live in.

www.etberlin.de  

About the performance-lecture

Ich kann nicht atmen

Taking its cue from Václav Havel's seminal 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless, the performance-lecture Ich kann nicht atmen [IKNA] gives an insider's account - bitter, hilarious and savagely satirical - of what it's like to live inside the immersive, sensurround scam that various lobbyists, eco-hypocrites and political pygmies have defined as energetische Modernisierung. The profit-led and undesired changes to one particular apartment building, for which the inhabitants ultimately pay, serves as an example of how the face of an entire capital city is being fundamentally and irrevocably altered for generations to come.

About the artists

Daniel Brunet & MC Jabber

Daniel Brunet (director) was born in Syracuse, New York and studied theater and film at Boston College. He moved to Berlin in 2001 and began a career as a freelance theater maker. Brunet was the Associate Director/Associate Producer of German Theater Abroad from 2005 to 2008, a transatlantic theater company based in New York and Berlin. In 2012 Brunet became Producing Artistic Director of English Theatre Berlin. 

Born in the UK, Mc Jabber currently lives in Berlin. The teacher, actor, singer and writer has won several awards for his poetry. He performed in Europe and overseas, both as a soloist and with his band Blue Foundation. In 1995 he won the first national slam of Britain.