Digital Radar Ost

Visit us from Friday, 19 June, 17.00 o´clock at the digital DT: www.radarost.digital

From 19 to 21 June, the Deutsches Theater Berlin will open its doors to an international audience. On three stages as well as in eight other spaces in the theatre, productions from Eastern Europe and Russia will take place in parallel, with over 50 hours of non-stop theatre free of charge. What sounds utopian in current times is being made possible by Digital Radar Ost. For the festival weekend, the DT will be turned into a digital space. In three-dimensional, familiar and unknown areas, the audience can discover and experience digital editions of planned guest performances, premieres of transnational collaborations and live streams of productions by renowned directors – in addition to lectures, concerts, talks and workshops. Now that many national borders have been closed, it is more important than ever to premiere contemporary drama from Eastern Europe in Germany. This summer, you, the audience will not have to go without discovering new plays, contemporary theatre and spending time together – except that the shared space will be digital and traverse national borders (design and implementation: CyberRäuber).

For the original Radar Ost festival weekend, theatre productions from the Ukraine, Hungary, Russia and the Czech Republic were selected for the programme with a focus on female perspectives. Together with our partner theatres, inspiring editions of these works have now been created for digital space. The DT will also be presenting three full-length outstanding productions by Kirill Serebrennikov, Ewelina Marciniak and Timofej Kuljabin for the first time in Germany, as a live stream with either English or German subtitles. Cross-border collaborations with the Gogol Center in Moscow, the Dakh Teatr in Kiev and the Royal District Theatre in Tbilisi are also celebrating their premieres online.

In the supporting programme we will be showing three lectures with artists from Russia, Poland and the Ukraine on current socio-political issues and taboo subjects. These cover nationalism, the war in Eastern Ukraine and sexism. You can also take part in an interactive drag workshop and the webinar News from the East? with partner theatres of the European Theatre Convention (ETC).

with English and German subtitles (at your choice)

Friday, 19 June 2020, 20.00-22.40 h
An Ordinary Story by Ivan Goncharov, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Gogol-Center Moscow/Russia
Virtual venue: German theatre
Introduction at 19.30 h, afterwards follow-up conversation in the chat room

Saturday, 20 June 2020, 20.00-21.20 h
History of Violence by Édouard Louis, directed by Ewelina Marciniak
Fredro Theatre Gniezno/Poland
Virtual venue: Box
Introduction at 19.30 h

Sunday, 21 June 2020, 20.00-22.20 h
Onegin after Alexander Pushkin, directed by Timofej Kuljabin
Theatre Red Torch, Novosibirsk/Russia
Virtual venue: Kammerspiele
Introduction at 19.30 h, afterwards follow-up conversation in the chat room

with German and/or English subtitles

Macocha by Petra Hůlová, directed by Kamila Polívková
Co-production of Studio Hrdinů, Prague/Czech Republic and HaDivadlo, Brno/Czech Republic
New recording: 35 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Canteen
With German and English subtitles

28 Days by Olga Shilyaeva, directed by Svetlana Mikhalishcheva and Yuri Muravitsky
Teatr.doc and Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow/Russia
Director's Cut: 30 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Spectator´s cloackroom
With German and English subtitles

Queendom by Veronika Szabó, directed by Veronika Szabó
SÍN Arts Centre, Budapest/Hungary
New recording monologue: 7 minutes, on demand
Virtual room: Actors' dressing room
In German language
Re-recording body tableau: 10 minutes
Virtual venue: Mirror foyer
Without words

Bad Roads by Natalia Vorozhbit, directed by Tamara Trunova
Left Bank Theatre, Kiev/Ukraine
New recording of three monologues: 12 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Understage
With German subtitles

Hooligan: In the field
A film in three parts by Peter Cant, Sam Kyslyi, Danylo Shramenko and Mirra Zhuchkova, directed by Peter Cant
Kiev / Ukraine
New composition: 20 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Basement
In Ukrainian and Russian language with English subtitles

Gogol-Center Moscow/Russia + Deutsches Theater Berlin
Small Requiem by Valeriy Percheykin, directed by Ilya Shagalov
With: Yang Ge, Helmut Mooshammer, Ilya Shagalov, Regine Zimmermann
Premiere: 15 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Upper level foyer
In Russian and German language with integrated subtitles

TseSho (Kyiv/Ukaine) + Neues Künstlertheater (Germany)
Morph. A Word Concert
One concert: 50 minutes
Saturday, 20 June 2020 at 21.30 (Livestream)
Virtual venue: Bar
Without subtitles

Royal District Theatre (Tbilisi/Georgia) + Deutsches Theater Berlin
In Third Person
Concept: Data Tavadze, Davit Gabunia, Sima Djabar Zadegan
With: Gérômina Castell, Nikolo Ghviniashvili
Premiere: 10 minutes, on demand
Virtual venue: Deutsches Theater
In German language

Digital Radar Ost is part of the Long Night of Ideas of the Federal Foreign Office