the challenge of International Theatre

Christian Tschirner, the German director of the play “80 days 80 nights” is talking about his view on international theatre. He sees a huge challenge for such projects and especially for theatreplays to be internationally understandable and playable. For him the factor of regional understanding and clear messages is a limiting factor. Only dance theatre can cross this line because it mostly is vaguer and can be artistically interpreted by the audience. Being a foreign director Christian Tschirner is talking about his lack of knowledge of the countries audience. He does not want to claim himself knowing how for example the Turkish visitors enjoy a theatre play.

While the train is taking its way from Bucarest to Craiova we can easily sit down and think about Christian Tschirner`s thoughts. Surely we are not the only ones asking ourselves how each audience is reacting and feeling about the different plays…