Photo by Esra Rotthoff

Tuesday, May 2
Segal Theatre
8:00pm

FREE + Open to public. First come, first served.

Meteorites
Written by Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Germany) & translated by Jenny Piening
Directed by Mallory Catlett
Discussion moderated by Antje Oegel

Germany is in the World Cup final; Berlin is dreaming again of a summer fairy tale to forget the world torn by wars. Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Salzmann sends her protagonists on a seemingly endless search for a new self, which denies traditional concepts of identity.

Courtesy of Stefan Loeber

Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a playwright, essayist, curator, dramaturg and writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. She is the co-founder of the magazine freitext and was the artistic director of STUDIO Я, which was named “best experimental work of the year” by DIE WELT newspaper in 2014. She also co-founded NIDS – New Institute for Drama, where she teaches and gives workshops on political writing. Her award-winning work has been translated and produced in over 20 countries. In 2016-17 she was voted “The playwright of the year” by the theatre magazine Deutsche Bühne. Salzmann´s first novel, Außer sich, will be published in September 2017.

Mallory Catlett is an Obie award-winning creator and director of performance across disciplines from Opera and Music Theater to Installation. She is the Artistic Director of Restless, a company designed to excavate the literary and theatrical cannon in creation of contemporary performance. The current project, M/F Future, is a pair of performances based on the novels of William Burroughs and Doris Lessing. In NYC her work has premiered at 3LD, HERE, Ontological-Hysteric, PS122, Abrons, Chocolate Factory, Roulette & the Collapsable Hole; featured at the Ice Factory, COIL, Prelude, Prototype and BAM’s Next Wave; and been developed at MTA, Barishnykov Arts, McDowell, Performing Garage, Abrons, HERE, Mabou Mines, LMCC and Yaddo; and toured internationally to Canada, France, UK, Ireland & Australia. She is a 2015 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Grantee, a 2016 Creative Capital Awardee and an Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at Stonybrook University.

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