PushPush Presents BREMEN FREEDOM in preparation for Berlin Tour
PushPush Theater presents the final 6 performances of Fassbinder's Bremen Freedom, based on one of the greatest series of murders committed by a woman fighting to be free in a man's world. Directed by Ballhaus Ost's Uwe Eichler and Nicola Ahr, the play is being remounted in preparation for a tour to Berlin's Ballhaus Ost Theater March 15-28.
The tour is one part of PushPush's Portal Project, an international exchange creating opportunities to share ideas and resources by bringing International Artists to Atlanta and taking Atlanta artists abroad. Cast members Matt Stanton, George Faughnan, Tara Ochs, Tim Habeger, Claire Christie, and Evan Fillon, along with Sound Designer Jeremiah Prescott will travel to Berlin to rehearse and perform the piece at one of Berlin's premiere independent theaters. While there, they will continue work on a variety of new Portal Projects designed to create additional opportunities, including a long-term stage and screen series involving various directors, dramaturges, film and theater artists. PushPush invites anyone who is interested in learning more about the Portal Project, its opportunities, and our mission to raise the bar for Atlanta's film and theater community, to please stay after one of the shows and talk with our artists about how you can get involved!
by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder
Based on one of the greatest murders committed by a woman fighting to be free in a man's world, Bremen Freedom pertains to subject matter in the realist tradition: A woman systematically eliminates the men and women who would keep her in her proper place. It's a dysfunctional house blend, combining flavors of repression and abuse, with an aromatic touch of angst, brewed to a perfect cup of murderous rage. Cream or sugar? Before Thelma and Louise, there was Geesche Gottfried. For mature audiences only. Run time is 70 minutes, Mar 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th at 8pm, Pay-What-You-Can $15-$35.
For tickets and information on these and other PushPush shows and projects visit www.pushpushtheater.com.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:Rainer-Werner Fassbinder was best known for his powerful, offbeat films. He made forty of them by the time he died of a drug overdose at thirty six. He began his work in the theatre in the late sixties, at the age of twenty-two. He acted, directed, (loosely) adapted classics, wrote several of his own plays, and in a few years emerged as the leader of a group of performers who worked with him until his death in 1982. Fassbinder's plays, like the films, are about varieties of alienation. The images Fassbinder created for the stage, and in films, linger as grotesque and brutal, possessing a strange, improbable truth. In a way, Fassbinder made a career out of despair - selling his own and others' misery in endless variations, operating according to a system he did not create. Works included in his controversial anti-theater plays are: Bremen Freedom, Blood on the Cat's Neck, Katzelmacher, and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Photo: Tara Ochs and George Faughnan in Fassbinder's Bremen Freedom - Photo (c) Carson Weatherby/PushPush Theater
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