Tag: Thomas Ostermeier
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Thomas Ostermeier’s Magnificent Adaptation of “History of Violence” at St Ann’s Warehouse
When the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life – for Americans. Beginning as a protest against a fuel tax combating global warming, it initially seemed the sort of thing Americans could…
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Why Returning to Reims works: The sequence and method of a political play
We engulf and tangle with a political idea in a different way than how we listen and respond to a play.
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A Fucking Limping Paradox: Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III at BAM
A white light emits from the mouth of a vintage Shure Unidyne microphone dangling from the ceiling on what looks like an electric vine with various twists and hooks adorned. When Richard comes unhinged, as he does at various times during Schaubühne Berlin’s production of Richard III which ran though October 14th as part of…