The Other Is You
A Play in Europe – Germany, the Netherlands, England.
A basement in Brighton, a school in Groningen, and a gallery in Berlin merge to become a fourth imaginary space. The Other is You was performed at the same moment across Europe, projected live from each city onto three screens above the actors.
The Other Is You, performed by a truly European company, told a story which was both universal and true to its own locality. What does it mean to be European? Are we strangers or are we family?
with Zoe Bouras, Orion Maxted, Victoria Melody (Brighton); Michael Baderschneider, Marketa Richterova, Tamer Yigit (Berlin); Aafke Buringh, Menno Stijntjes, Margje Wittermans, (Groningen)
Directed by Martin Clausen, Floris van Delft and Julian Maynard Smith
“The ordinary daily activities of people conducting similar actions in far-away places take on deeper significance as the resonate across time and space. This project extends Station House Opera’s explorations of how space – in particular non-theatrical and, more recently, virtual space – can be employed in performance.”
Jem Kelly, Devising in Process
“The complexity of working across three countries has led to an unconventional narrative which asks such questions as, what does it mean to be European? Immediate and unpredictable, it throws up plenty of brain-teasers…”
Bella Todd, The Argus
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The Basement, Brighton, Grand Theatre, Groningen and HAU, Berlin
An ArtsAdmin production 2006
