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Heiner Goebbels

HEINER GOEBBELS

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    German
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Heiner Goebbels's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Heiner Goebbels's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Black On White         Eraritjaritjaka         Hashigiraki         I Went To the House But Did Not Enter         Max Black         No Arrival, No Parking, Navigation         Stifters Dinge

Black On White

Synopsis:
memorial to director and writer Heiner Muller features 18 actor-musicians in 23 non-narrative short scenes that are accompanied by Goebbels' multi-genre music and readings from the works of edgar allan Poe, T S eliot, Maurice Blanchot and John Webster.

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Eraritjaritjaka

Synopsis:
the audience remains in the handsome playhouse, while the Drama's aging professor leaves the stage and disappears into the night followed by a cameraman. From there, a wonderfully synchronised combination of live and recorded film, performance, projection and live music brings us the character's resonating, existentialist and quasi-surreal musings. - Brown, Sunday Herald.

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after words by elias Caneti

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Genre:
Music theatre piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  musical quartet

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Hashigiraki

Synopsis:
a musical spectacular inspired by the text of Gertrude Stein s the Making of Americans

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Devised Piece

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I Went To the House But Did Not Enter

Synopsis:
meditation on life's passing and on the the inevitable melancholy of ageing

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Hilliard ensemble

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Max Black

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No Arrival, No Parking, Navigation

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LIFT 2001

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Sound City ensemble

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Show

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Stifters Dinge

Synopsis:
This is the U.S. premiere of this sonic performance landscape created vt created by the innovative German composer/director Heiner Goebbels. Stifters Dinge unfolds on a set of bare trees surrounded by industrial construction. Five pianos, stripped of their covers, are suspended sideways above the stage. across this bizarre landscape, the pianos play by themselves, fog rises, rain falls, water bubbles, objects move mysteriously, or are set in motion by robot-like apparatuses which create sound effects. Idealized paintings of nature are projected. the score, performed in real-time and recorded, has original music by Goebbels, selections from classical music, jazz works, and traditional chants from South America and Papua New Guinea. Recorded fragments of texts from adalbert Stifter's novels, excerpts from an interview with 20th-century anthropologist/social philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss, and quotations from speeches and writings of other modern writers and thinkers, are woven throughout. Goebbels's intention is for the individual audience member to encounter these disparate elements ("dinge" or "things") and for the "accumulation" of all the visual and aural experiences to shape the meaning each person "composes."
- nytheatre.com

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Park avenue armory    40163

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Lincoln Center

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Genre:
70 min Piece

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