WORKSHOP DIRECTED BY THOMAS OSTERMEIER
Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch - Berlin
Festival de Liège / Théâtre & Publics / Ecole Supérieure d’Acteurs du Conservatoire de Liège
Theatre / Germany - Belgium

Thomas Ostermeier is one Germany’s and Europe greatest stage directors, yet another who is permanently involved with necessity of renewing theatre. As stage director or Berlin’s Schaubühne co director he has never stop confronting theatre with the stakes of our world today:to question collective or individual histories through classical or contemporary plays. Invited to our festival of 2005 with Concert à la carte this time he’s directing a work shop bringing together four stage direction students from Hochschule für Schauspielkunst and sixteen young Belgians actors professional or students from the school of Conservatiore de Liège. Thomas Ostermeier will be there to help them finalize thoroughly their work, and to share his learned experience with them too. This workshop will finish by an evening circuit in the unexpected space of the Caserne Fonck with a presentation of four plays :

SIEBEN SEKUNDEN (IN GOD WE TRUST)/ Falk Richter
An American war pilot on an aircraft carrier defending the homeland, attacks the enemy. Which enemy? He doesn’t know anymore. Countries governed by dictators with unpronounceable names that he has never heard of. When he finds himself in front of the international court to answer for his crime we realise that he doesn’t know about the devastating effects of his bombings. In this recent play that at times is similar to a soap opera Falk Richter starts  a real prosecution against the permanent state of war imposed by the United States of America.

WENIGER NOTFÄLLE/ Martin Crimp
Along with Sarah Kane and Marc Ravenhill Martin Crimp is one of England’s most important contemporary playwrights. His plays take us into the heart of the contemporary vileness of mankind. In Weniger Notfälle we could believe in the beginning that these characters live in a world of comfort and happiness. It’s only because they were forgetting about the presence of the outside world…

Workshop directed by Thomas Ostermeier- Stage set: Nina Wetzel- stage direction: Kathleen Bredenbeck, Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Jan-Christoph Gockel, David Schliesing- With: Laure Bronkart, Amandine Carlier, Virginie Gardin, Emilie Jonet, Stéphanie Lepage, Anabel Lopez, Nabil Missoumi, Anaïs Moreau, Luc Schiltz, Emilienne Tempels, Vincent Hennebicq, Fabrice Murgia, Cédric Legoulven, Baptiste Sornin, Benjamen Op de Beeck, Tibo Vandeborre- Assistants: Julie Anson, Stéphane Boshung, Laura Spul, Catherine Wilkin- Musician: Vincent Cahay (cast in progress)- Photographer: Amo Declair

The shows are in french