There is no dearth of drama in our world, but much remains off-stage. This is one reason for the project Goethe Institute have launched in collaboration with Sandbox Collective. To help publicise and popularise the vast online databank of German plays in translation. And give the local theatre community the impetus to explore German drama. German Spotlight invited Bangalore theatre makers to select a play by a German playwright and stage it in a dramatised reading.
Salmin Sheriff selected “The Thing” by Philipp Löhle.
Entry by invitation only!
Write to: collective.sandbox@gmail.com
About the play:
The Thing travels between the 14th century and the present day through characters ranging from Charles II of Spain and Magellan the explorer to a married couple, a photographer, two Chinese entrepreneurs, a Swiss eco-farmer and his African co-worker in a rich narrative of globalisation, that promises intimacy and causes alienation through this “thing” that is a ball of cotton.
About the Director:
Salmin Sheriff was a founder member, with Mahesh Dattani, of the theatre group Playpen. Salmin started his theatre career as an actor, his most recent works being in The Retreating World, Stalowa Wola and The Unseen. Salmin wrote his first play Self Portrait in 1992 which was performed in Bangalore at that time. He has written and directed several plays over the years. He is at present writing a play about tribal displacement.
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