On four evenings from March to July 2022, Experimental Radio presents current productions by students and alumni at Theater Erfurt: the spectrum ranges from radio plays and features to immersive sound installations and live performances.
The series of events begins on Thursday, March 24, 2022, with the radio play "Die Pforte ist eine Insel" (The Gate is an Island) by Mara May, which will be brought into the theater space in a performative version together with Tommy Neuwirth. The second evening on Thursday, May 19, 2022, introduces the art of staging and shows how different directors interpret one and the same text acoustically in different ways. Four radio plays from the manuscript competition of the Leipziger Hörspielsommer 2021 will be presented, followed by an evening on immersive sound spaces with Johann Mittmann, who will take us into queer fairy tale worlds on Thursday, June 30, 2022. All evenings of the "HÖR.BOX" conclude with an audience discussion with the authors.
The events are scheduled in presence. Subject to change based on the pandemic situation. Admission is free. Counting cards will be issued on the day of the event.
All event dates of the series "HÖR.BOX":
"Die Pforte ist ein Insel" by and with Mara May and Tommy Neuwirth.
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 8 p.m.
"Reality Check" - radio plays from the manuscript competition at the Hörspielsommer Leipzig
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 8 p.m.
"Immersive Räume" by and with Johann Mittmann
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 7 p.m.
Venue:
Theater Erfurt
Studio.box
Theater Square 1
99084 Erfurt
https://www.theater-erfurt.de/Programm/Alle-Stuecke/Hoer-Box.html
Info about the individual plays and events
March 24: "Die Pforte ist eine Insel" by and with Mara May and Tommy Neuwirth
The play deals with the phenomenon of the gate: live ticker Bundesliga, television under the table, cheese salami bread in the evening. That's what happens behind the glass pane when no one is there. Something else happens in front of the glass. Seventy-five good mornings, fifty-four good evenings, and always opening the door. Giving out keys, greeting the van. Cigarette break. In the radio play, the author seeks out doormen and concierges.
19 May: "Reality Check" with various directors
How does sound change a text? *romantic music* And does the text itself sound? Tttt tttkssssst. Four short listening pieces will be presented, two of which have the same textual basis - but sound completely different. An evening of listening about the tender, complicated and varied relationship between text and sound. The pieces shown were part of the last manuscript competition, and were realized by young directors from the Institute of Applied Theater Studies, Giessen and the Experimental Radio, Weimar.
Participating directors: Josephine Pascale Rudolph & Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, Dean Ruddock & Cäcilie Willkommen, Radu Paul Simon Reinhardt, Wanda Dubrau & Nicolas Gerling & Tina Muffler & Simon Zeller.
June 30: "The Snow Queen" by and with Johann Mittmann
In the immersive radio play "The Snow Queen" you enter a small souvenir store. Your eyes are fascinated by the snow globes. You shake the globe next to your right ear, then you look inside: The view into the snow globe turns into an audio event. In it, scenes from the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen and the dance performance "The Snow Queen*" by systemrhizoma emerge, as well as biographical and theoretical reflections on identity. With dynamic movements and rushing sounds, the audio piece invites us to turn imaginatively to queer realities of life. What inclusions and exclusions are experienced? Which characters are identified with? Which stories influence each other?
The "STUDIO.BOX" of Theater Erfurt is a space and a forum for the networking of internal and external artists, ideas and concepts. But it is also an interface for classical music theater with experimental projects.
The event series "HÖR.BOX" is a cooperation between the STUDIO.BOX of Theater Erfurt and the professorship "Experimental Radio" of the Faculty of Art and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar. From March to July 2022, four evenings will be created by and with students of Experimental Radio.