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Road Theater
USA 2007
USA 2007
Road Theater USA WebsiteRoad Theater (PDF, 155kb)Road Theater Projektkurzbeschreibung (PDF, 256kb)
GTA’s Road Theater USA embarks on a hilarious theatrical
adventure – or misadventure – as 5 actors, 3 German
and 2 from the U.S., 2 Austrian video artists and the GTA team travel
cross-country in a converted school bus from New York to Los Angeles in
search of the "American Dream”.
The play within the performance is Start Up, a black comedy written specifically for GTA by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Germany’s most produced contemporary playwright. Young Germans come to the U.S. to find their fortunes: their million euro idea? To start up a business and sell German culture. Of course, that is exactly what GTA’s Road Theater USA is doing as it travels across the country presenting this fast-paced farce.
A video team documents this ambitious road trip, then mixes the video material collected up to that point live during each performance where it is projected on set. This always new and expanded dramatic “Road Journal” will interact with the production of the play Start Up as background and stage design. The audience is treated to a unique, riotous and ever-changing performance event, a combination of the filmed “reality” of the tour and the theatrical “fiction” of the Schimmelpfennig play.
The trip will take the troupe from New York through 24 cities in the U.S. over 7 weeks. They will travel 6,000 miles and perform in 24 locations – including sleepy villages like Edmonton, Kentucky, Las Vegas, the original sin city, melting pots like El Paso on the Texas/Mexico border and even an actual ghost town, Death Valley Junction – until they reach Los Angeles on the Pacific Ocean.
The play within the performance is Start Up, a black comedy written specifically for GTA by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Germany’s most produced contemporary playwright. Young Germans come to the U.S. to find their fortunes: their million euro idea? To start up a business and sell German culture. Of course, that is exactly what GTA’s Road Theater USA is doing as it travels across the country presenting this fast-paced farce.
A video team documents this ambitious road trip, then mixes the video material collected up to that point live during each performance where it is projected on set. This always new and expanded dramatic “Road Journal” will interact with the production of the play Start Up as background and stage design. The audience is treated to a unique, riotous and ever-changing performance event, a combination of the filmed “reality” of the tour and the theatrical “fiction” of the Schimmelpfennig play.
The trip will take the troupe from New York through 24 cities in the U.S. over 7 weeks. They will travel 6,000 miles and perform in 24 locations – including sleepy villages like Edmonton, Kentucky, Las Vegas, the original sin city, melting pots like El Paso on the Texas/Mexico border and even an actual ghost town, Death Valley Junction – until they reach Los Angeles on the Pacific Ocean.
