Unrehearsed reading/Ambigú, 12.05.2022, 20:00, Theater unterm Dach
Translated from the Spanish by Franziska Muche and Lea Saland
On the 12th of May, 2022, the kick-off event for the thematic focus on New Spanish-Language Drama will take place at Berlin’s Theater unterm Dach as part of the drama panorama series of events panorama #2: übertheaterübersetzen. Mieter by Spanish author Paco Gámez will be presented in a unrehearsed reading based on the performance principle Ambigú. The play will be published by by Neofelis Verlag in the autumn of 2022 in the anthology Schattenschwimmer edited by Carola Heinrich and Franziska Muche.
Mieter tells the drama of a young man who is forced to leave his apartment after a rent increase. What does it mean to pack a lovingly designed “home” into cardboard boxes with the prospect of living in ever smaller apartments, further and further away from the city, pushed ever closer to the margins of society? Playwright Paco Gámez deals with this question in a particularly entertaining way. A story that begins realistically, but soon takes an unexpected turn into the mythical. A play of great linguistic precision, an autobiographical fiction that reflects the experience of an entire generation.
Followed by an audience discussion with Franziska Muche, Thorsten Schlenger and Paco Gámez (Zoom).
Host: Franziska Muche
Dramaturgy: Alexander Schröder
Perfomers: Robert Martin, Uli Plessmann, Frieda Pöschel, Kotbong Yang
About the author
Paco Gámez, was born in 1982 in Úbeda and is a playwright, actor, director and teacher. He studied English in Jaén and acting in Seville, and it was through acting that he ultimately came to writing for theatre. His plays have received numerous awards, been translated into many languages and performed all over the world. Mieter premiered in 2019in the Centro Dramático Nacional in Madrid and was also performed in the Cervantes Theatre in London. Most recently, in May 2022, the award-winning author also won the VI Torneo de Dramaturgia, the playwriting competition of the Teatro Español.
A cooperation between Drama Panorama, Theater unterm Dach and the Instituto Cervantes.
An event by Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V. as part of the project panorama #2: übertheaterübersetzen, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds as part of the Neustart Kultur programme. In cooperation with Neofelis Verlag Berlin and die taz.
