Experiencing cultural withdrawal symptoms? Here’s an antidote: the weekly online streams from the Maxim Gorki Theater. Berlin’s smallest state theater has been adapting to the current environment by bringing a play from its repertoire to your living room every Wednesday at 18h. Available on YouTube for a 24 hour period, these past performances epitomize what Gorki is all about: diverse, radical contemporary theater that provokes debate and crosses boundaries. Streams have included Falk Richter’s Small Town Boy, a play that explores sexuality with 80s synth as a soundtrack, and Marta Górnicka’s Grundgesetz, which takes a critical look at Germany’s constitution via choral singing. Today, Christian Weise’s interpretation of Hamlet can be streamed until 18h while tomorrow (24.04.) sees a special showing of Auction of Souls on the Armenian genocide. On 29.04, Verrücktes Blut will deal with the assumptions in Germany’s debate on integration. These weekly theater surprises will be keeping us occupied until the Gorki can reopen its curtains once again. (Text: Hanna Komornitzyk / Photos: Grundgesetz © Ute Langkafel MAIFOTO, Souls & Verrücktes Blut © Esra Rotthoff)
Gorki Stream: the online plays are available every Wednesday from 18h for a period of 24 hours.
Hamlet: 22.–23.04.2020
Auction of Souls: Stream Special 24.–25.04.2020
Verrücktes Blut: 29.–30.04.2020
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