In BAUERNTHEATER (“farmers’ theater”), an American actor, who knows no German, will train to play the role of a farmer in a German play.  After a month’s rehearsal in a New York studio, he will be flown to the Biorama-Projekt Center in Brandenburg, Germany.  There he will be given two acres of land, and asked to be "in character" for 14 hours a day, for a month.  

 

 

The New York and Brandenburg phases of the project take place in March and May, 2007, respectively.  Both phases are open to the public.

 

BAUERNTHEATER will culminate in documentary video screenings in New York and Berlin, and archival documentation in the form of performance journals and approximately half a ton of harvested potatoes.