Podcasts by the white room - conversations on theatre
Theatre in times of Covid-19. If we cannot meet, at least we can speak.
Further podcasts by Marije Nie & Simon Bronikowski
Podcast on the topic Darstellende Kunst
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TWR030 - On Dialogue (with Brenno K. Russo) from 2021-05-04T04:00:04
(recorded & streamed on May 3, 2021) „Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven’t really paid much att...
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TWR029 - Visions of Artaud (with Théophile Choquet) from 2021-04-27T01:44:30
(recorded & streamed on 26 April, 2021) Do you know Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)? We neither, and we don't pretend to. With Théophile we try to circle around this very special figure in theatre hi...
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TWR028 - Playtime (with Futur3) from 2021-04-20T09:03:39
(recorded and streamed on 19 April, 2021) After one year we meet again with theatre group Futur3 (Cologne, DE), i.e. with the Artistic Directors Stefan Kraft and André Erlen. After introducing t...
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TWR027 - Cheers for Fears (with Sina Schneller&Jascha Sommer) from 2021-04-06T20:58:03
the white room - conversations on theatre #27 In the 27th episode we speak with Sina and Jascha, founders of the network Cheers for Fears. After Simon spills some water into the wine of the concep...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude from 2021-03-22T23:27:55
the white room - conversations on theatre #26 (streamed & recorded on March 22, 2021) We wanted to limit ourselves to one hour, but got carried away a little bit. Celebrating the anniversary of t...
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TWR025 - Thinginess (with Linda Cunningham) from 2021-03-09T22:22:01
(recorded and streamed on March 8, 2021) A very bifurcating conversation with Linda Cunningham, containing: Ambiguity, #InternationalWomensDay, Real Emancipation vs. Emancipation as Brand, Privile...
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TWR024 - Homage to a True Liar from 2021-02-24T07:21:06
(recorded and streamed on 22 Feb, 2021) After touching some smaller topics, Simon speaks at length about Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter, playwright, narrator, dramaturg for the greatest films ...
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TWR023 - Against Solutions from 2021-02-09T20:44:18
(recorded and streamed on 8 Feb, 2021) containing Coronavirus Update: Resignation, Clubhouse Ladidah. Speaking about Practice without the Practice. Future Topics: Classic Texts & Artificiality. "T...
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TWR022 - Beipackzettel from 2021-01-26T13:19:21
(recorded and streamed on 25 Jan, 2021) Our first episode 2021 starts with a scanning of possible topics that interests us. Contents: Signal, Digital Naivité, Surveillance Capitalism, Attention...
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TWR021 - Same Storm, Different Boats (with Christian Grüny, Marta Wryk, Linda Cunningham) from 2021-01-15T17:33:43
(recorded on Dec 30, 2020) We sat together for a special end of year episode, which we streamed live on the evening of December 30. We had a lot of technical problems (who didn’t this year!?), but...
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TWR020 - Realm without King (with Felix Ensslin) from 2020-12-10T20:04:57
"Agora. The marketplace. This is where we negotiate who we are. Who we want to be." With this claim Marcel Cremer founded the Agora Theater in St Vith in 1980. A German-speaking theater in Belgium....
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TWR019 - The Actual Real Deal Dictator (with Touchstone Theater) from 2020-10-30T23:44:34
Again we are fortunate to be joined by Christopher Shorr and JP Jordan from Touchstone Theater in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. We sit together in the white room and talk about the upcoming electio...
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TWR018 - Money for Nothing (with Harald Redmer) from 2020-10-19T00:47:38
Harald Redmer, born in 1954, lives in Münster as a freelance actor, director, producer and dramaturg. He was co-founder of the renowned Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster and has been a member of the Bo...
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TWR017 - On the Road: FAVORITEN Festival 2020 from 2020-09-24T21:22:58
Simon has had the great pleasure to accompany this year's edition of the FAVORITEN Festival, one of the oldest festivals for independent performing arts, which is organised every two years since 19...
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TWR016 - Summer has left from 2020-09-07T17:46:11
(recorded on Sep 6, 2020) "And now summer has left as if it never came at all. It’s warm still where the sun falls. But it’s not enough. (...)" - Arseny Tarkovsky Towards the end of the summer...
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TWR015 - Something Has To Communicate (with Gonzalo Alarcón) from 2020-06-27T14:14:14
GONZALO ALARCÓN (Brussels, BE) started as a Circus performer on the streets of Chile. He then discovered the Art of the Clown, which continues to be his focus. His latest performance Chiringuito Pa...
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TWR014 - The Physics of Comedy (with Gonzalo Alarcón) from 2020-06-15T13:07:12
GONZALO ALARCÓN (Brussels, BE) started as a Circus performer on the streets of Chile. He then discovered the Art of the Clown, which continues to be his focus. His latest performance Chiringuito Pa...
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TWR013 - It's Your Duty to Create Beauty (with Jordan&Shorr) from 2020-06-09T06:41:15
TOUCHSTONE THEATRE (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA) was founded in 1981 as a street theatre troupe and slowly grew to be a professional not-for-profit theatre dedicated to the creation of original wo...
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TWR012 - Fires and Darkness from 2020-06-04T07:22:19
We are back, just the two of us, and we are in the mood. In this evening conversation we try to make some sense of what is going on at the moment. As we experience the possibility of opening our v...
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TWR011 - The Athletic Voice (with Marta Wryk) from 2020-05-31T08:27:46
MARTA WRYK (Cologne, DE) is a Mezzosoprano Opera singer. She debuted in 2011 at the Virginia Opera (USA) before establishing herself in Cologne. Her manifold experience extends from performing in e...
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TWR010 - The Music of Laughter (with Gonzalo Alarcón) from 2020-05-20T07:07:18
GONZALO ALARCÓN (Brussels, BE) started as a Circus performer on the streets of Chile. He then discovered the Art of the Clown, which continues to be his focus. His latest performance Chiringuito Pa...
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TWR009 - Effort and Beauty (with Mario Barzaghi) from 2020-05-10T08:28:31
MARIO BARZAGHI is Actor and Director. He started doing theatre in the 70s as a factory worker. In 1981 he joined Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo under the direction of Renzo Vescovi and began studying ...
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TWR008 - Song of the Forest (with Daniel Jacewicz) from 2020-04-26T08:15:52
DANIEL JACEWICZ is the Artistic Director of Teatr Brama (Goleniów, PL), which he founded in 1996, when he was 17 years old. With Daniel we speak about his beginnings in the theatre, how crazy accid...
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TWR007 - Proto-Knowledge (with Christian Grüny) from 2020-04-22T08:28:17
You could have guessed from the first episode on: Marije and Simon have an inclination towards "hammer philosophy", indulging in their proto-knowledge. That's one of the reasons why we are very hap...
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TWR006 - Future Experiments (with André Erlen) from 2020-04-16T06:15:32
André Erlen is one of four Artistic Directors of Futur3 - a Cologne-based theatre group he co-founded in 2003. With André we speak about his work, his beginnings in the theatre, founding Futur3, p...
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TWR005 - On Training (with Adriana La Selva) from 2020-04-13T16:15:32
ADRIANA LA SELVA is a theatre maker, a performer, a networker and a researcher. Adriana is working on a practice-based Ph.D. at the University of Ghent in Belgium, in association with the School o...
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TWR004 - Rhythm Part I: Three Giants Dancing (Around the Fire) from 2020-04-05T11:14:52
We meet again in the white room; this time we bring a topic which interests both Marije and Simon very much and which is one of reasons of having started these conversations - a basic element of pe...
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TWR003 - Theatre in times of Covid-19 (with Per Kap Bech Jensen) from 2020-04-02T17:23:49
PER KAP BECH JENSEN is administrative director of Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium - Odin Teatret in Holstebro (DK) since 2014. In January 2021 he will move to be Director of the theatre. Odin Teatret...
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TWR002 - Beginner's Heart from 2020-03-30T04:30
We sit down and want to speak about our beginnings in the theatre. Instead we drift into a long reflection about what it means to begin, what it means to be a beginner, what it means to be an exper...
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TWR001 - Whereof one cannot speak... from 2020-03-26T10:23:49
What are we going to talk about? Why are we going to speak about what we're going to speak about? Why are we making a podcast about theatre? Why even talk about theatre? Conversations on theatre? O...
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