Is this part four? I’ve lost track of time and the days here; I even sent Andrew Lowrie a text yesterday thinking it was Tuesday and therefore the day of this month’s board meeting.
So here I am, still at Köln and about to set off to take in some modern art before meeting with the kurator of the theatre festival.
Yesterday was another busy day: first I met with the director of the ‘walkabout’ show I’d seen (been a part of?) on Sunday. Lukas talked enthusiastically about his theatre work which often involves site specific story telling of this kind. I suggested that we might try something similar in Birmingham and his response was very supportive. We talked about how he researched the lives of ordinary people who have lived thru extraordinary times and how to translate these into theatre. I really feel there are some stories to be told about Birmingham and that this would be an excellent project for The Crescent to lead in the future. Watch this space!
Then , last night, I joined a coach load of other people on a journey out to forest to watch DER BÜS. Even if your German is as bad as mine, you can probably guess that this is THE BUS – the play we are giving a UK premiere to in March. Well, it was great experience; the play works superbly in the great outdoors, even when the great outdoors are below minus degrees celcius. I’m not going to write an essay here now on the play, but needless to say the production, whilst very different to the one we’ll be doing, gave me lots of ideas.
Following the coach trip back into Köln I attended the after show talk which the director (Samuel Schwartz) and members of the cast kindly conducted in English for my benefit and the local radio station – yes the radio guy preferred it all in English! Following a couple of drinks I came back to the hotel to get som much needed sleep.
Today is the last full day in the city, so I’m off now to make the most of it.
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