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WORLD PREMIERE at "Royal Dramaten" in Stockholm, Sweden

 

The play "Nordost" (Northeast) is about the original hostage-taking in the Moscow musical theatre in october 2002.

Torsten Buchsteiner, Nordost 2005 © Moscow Press

Three women in Moscow.

Zura – a Chechen „Black Widow“. Together with 41 other hostagetakers she storms the Moscow theatre on 23 Oct. 2002.

Olga – a Russian accountant. Together with her husband and her nineyearold daughter she attends the performance of the musical ‘Northeast’ on that Wednesday.

Tamara – a Latvian doctor. She is on duty in an ambulance that night. The Chechens accept that she takes medical care of the hostages.

From three perspectives the play narrates the outrageous occupation of the theatre with its 850 captive members of the audience, until the Russian special forces spread deadly silence after a poison gas attack.

In his moving play Torsten Buchsteiner refrains from touching the question of guilt. He gives a voice to women who use the impact of the existential threat to look for traces that point beyond the three days of the hostage drama in October 2002.

 

Winner of the "Else-Lasker-Schüler-Play-Award" 2005.

Winner of "1. St. Galler Playwright Competition" 2005.

 

"N O R D O S T" - ALL PREMIERES:


08.06.2010: Presentation at "Rassegna di dramaturgia contemporanea" in Teatro della Corte, Genova, Italia, directed by Andrea Battistini. 

03.04.2010: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Ulm, Germany, directed by Malte Kreutzfeldt.

06.03.2010: Bulgarian Premiere of "Nordost" in Youth Theatre Sofia, directed by Vasilena Radeva.

Sept 2009: Tourné of "Nordost" with Riksteatern in Sweden, directed by Birte Niederhaus.

12.09.2009: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Meiningen, Germany, directed by Carsten Kochan.

05.06.2009: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Konstanz, Germany, directed by Leyla Rabih.

28.03.2009: Presentation at International "Festival Ecritures" in Théatre National de Bruxelles, directed by Lea Drouet. 

11.03.2009: Cyprian Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre ENA Limassol, Cyprus, directed by Marinos Anagiriatis.

12.02.2009: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Munich, Germany, directed by Christian Auras.

07.11.2008: Czech Premiere of "Nordost" in Cinoherni Studio Usti, Czech Republic, directed by Filip Nuckolls.

18.10.2008: "Nordost - the radio drama", (in swedish language) on air in "Radio Sverige".

23.09. Reading on the russian festival "Nowaja Drama" Moscow, directed by Olga Lussak.

19.09.2008: Premiere of "Nordost" in National Theatre Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark, directed by Ria Torgard.

11.03.2008: Premiere of "Nordost" in Folk Teatern Gothenburg, Sweden, directed by Birte Niederhaus.

29.01.2008: Premiere of "Nordost" in Svenska Teatern Helsinki & Turku, Finland, directed by Marina Meinander.

22.01.2008: Premiere of "Nordost" in Salzburg, Austria, directed by Peter Arp.

23.11.2007: Polish Premiere of "Nordost" in Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz, Poland, directed by Grazyna Kania.

23.10.2007: Greek Premiere of "Nordost" in "Theatre of Art" Athens, Greece, directed by Nikos Hadzopoulos. 

18.10.2007: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Erlangen / Nuremberg, Germany, directed by Lars Wernecke.

29.09.2007: Danish Premiere of "Nordost" in Husets Theatre Copenhagen, Denmark, directed by Hans Rosenquist. 

19.07.2007: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Heunburg (coproduction with Bregenz) Austria, directed by Hubert Dragaschnigg. 

14.04.2007: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Stuttgart, Germany, directed by Eva Hosemann. 

20.03.2007: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Luebeck, Germany. 

28.02.2007: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Sommerhausen, Germany, directed by Hannes Hirth.

27.01.2007: Swiss Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Zurich, Switzerland, directed by Stephan Roppel. 

19.11.2006: Austrian Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Graz, Austria, directed by Gustav Rueb.

18.11.2006: Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Dresden, Germany, directed by Gerald Gluth.

16.11.2006: German Premiere of "Nordost" in Theatre Kaiserslautern, Germany, directed by Thomas Krauß.

22.04.2006: World Premiere of "Nordost" in "Royal Dramaten" Stockholm, Sweden, directed by Ellen Lamm.

29.03.2006: First broadcasting of "Nordost - the radio drama", produced by WDR/NDR Germany, on air at 22:00 in WDR3.

24.-26.03.2006: Invitation of "Nordost" to german-french "Playwright Days" at Theatre Karlsruhe.

 

- If you want to read the play, please send an email to verlag@henschel-schauspiel.de ...



- "NORDOST" TRANSLATIONS (13):

Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, English, Faroese, French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
 
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