On Sunday, November 4th, LoNyLa in partnership with The Internationalists presented a rehearsed reading / online broadcast of "The Hummingbirds," a new play by Garret Jon Groenveld, winner of The Internationalists' Global Playwrighting Contest.
Hosted by English Theatre Berlin. Director Jake Witlen. Featuring Anita Anthonj & Daniel Unsöld.
Time: 6PM - 8PM CET (GMT+1). Location: English Theatre Berlin. F40 · Fidicinstrasse 40, 10965 Berlin.
“If you can walk, you can work.”
The Hummingbirds – a comedy of menace – takes place in the very near future where, if you are out of a job for too long, you are assigned one by the unemployment office.
Having their routines broken after an act of violence, two employment officers, one single, one married, react quite differently in the aftermath.
Funny, Fast and Foreboding.
Garret Jon Groenveld is a poet and playwright living in San Francisco, CA with an MA in Poetry and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University.
He's a founding writer of PlayGround and an inaugural member of the Writers in Residence program at the Playwrights Foundation.
His plays have appeared in San Francisco, Amsterdam and New York. He teaches playwriting at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.
Director Jake Witlen is a theatre and video artist based between Brooklyn and Berlin. As a founding member of The Internationalists, a collective of directors from around the world, he has devised and developed many pieces using new technologies.
Witlen's previous work includes: a collectively written adaptation of the Odyssey with 12 writers around the world using wikis, emails and waves (OD@C); an interactive puppet show written live in a wiki and performed in English and German (Rubble Room; chosen 2010 Zitty Top Buhne); and a simultaneous dinner between New York and Berlin (The Virtual Dinner Party). US Work: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, HERE Arts, 3-Legged Dog, PS122, the Ohio Theare etc. International Work: Berlin, London, Athens, Bucharest, Oslo, Sibiu, Quito and Bagalore, India.
If you can't attend in person, view the broadcast online from anywhere in the world: http://new.livestream.com/lonyla-live
Registration via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4662894844?ref=ebtnebregn
For more information about Velocity Lab's Autumn events, please visit our Broadcast Schedule.
~ LoNyLa grateful for the generosity of our supporters. ~
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