GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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The mesmerising innovations of Heiner Goebbels
SIMON DUFF introduces the German avant-garde composer
INSPIRATIONAL CONCEPTS: Heiner Goebbels
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DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Heiner Goebbels
A House of Call
(ECM)
HEINER GOEBBELS is a contemporary German theatre director and avant-garde composer. One of his most noted productions is Stifter’s Dinge (Founder’s Things) — a multimedia poetic technology performance piece, first performed in 2007, inspired by the nature writing of the 19th-century Austrian romantic writer Adalbert Stifter.
An extraordianry 80-minute work produced by the Swiss theatre company Theatre Vidy-Lausanne in association with Artangel in London for a 2008 production. It featured a multitude of invented instruments and cutting edge audio production with the score released by ECM.
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