The actors from Karlsruhe and Timisoara now....
The same actors a tiny bit photoshoped, and a tiny bit older...
Malte C. Lachmann, director of the play "The Clock is ticking"
"Although we have finished our
first three weeks of rehearsals in Karlsruhe and the theatre is on holidays
now, the creative team's work doesn't come to a halt: We are busy preparing our
rehearsals in Timisoara as there will only be two weeks left to put together
the interactive theatre performance we started to create in Karlsruhe. And
there is still a lot to do: Our playwright Peca Stefan has written more than
three times the material it would normally need to put together a conventional
theatre night as we will have the audience choose the scenes they want to see.
That means a) each show will be unique and b) there are lots and lots of scenes
for us to rehearse in order to have enough of them in stock. THE CLOCK IS
TICKING and quite literally so.
So, finally, after three weeks we have managed to have a draft version
of each of the scenes. The work itself was full of discovering the little and
big differences between two theatre cultures (German and Romanian) during
rehearsals and also whilst having a beer afterwards. Though, of course, there
was not too much time to focus on that with all the scenes being rehearsed,
rewritten and translated at the same time – a real inter-European creative
chaos you might say. We are all thrilled to see where rehearsals will lead us
as soon as we arrive in Timisoara and what it will be like to play with the
reactions of a Romanian audience.
Now, without the rehearsals, there is more time to discover other
meanings of the “Art of Ageing”, for example the art of ageing portraits of our
actors on photoshop that will be projected throughout the show:"
