The Titanic Orchestra

Today you will see again a small excerpt from one of the participating plays. In this case the slovenian contribution of the Slovenian National Theatre Novi Sad "The Titanic Orchestra".

Let yourself be attracted by this funny and exciting play. More of this you can see at the performances of "Orient Express Theatre Train" in Freiburg on July 04 and 05 or in the Stuttgart Harbor from July 09 on.

Arrival Stuttgart Harbor

Fatih is having a look outside of the waggon into the night to see where the train is heading and what is around.

Around 05 o`clock in the morning. The sun is already coming up and the train has just arrived from Slovenia. It has to be switched to its final destination for the next week, before the "Orient Theatre Train" leaves for the performances in Freiburg.

Technical Delays on the Theatre Train

Today we want to show and explain you a bit why the "Orient-Express-Theatre-Train" has such a long delay on the border between Slovenia and Austria, so that it arrived more than 8 hours later to Stuttgart than expected and so that we were not able to produce a new film the other day.

During the last weeks of travel from Turkey to the border to Austria the train has been using its generator-waggon to produce its own electricity. This electricity is also needed for operating all security features of the waggons during a train ride. For Austria and Germany this generator-waggon was not allowed to be used due to the possibility of magnetic interferences with the local electric train management systems. So the Austrian railway operator sent a special lokomotive with a special power supply to give enough electricity to the Turkish waggons to be properly opperated.

But as always something went wrong and nobody was able to get this power connection properly running. Without power the train was not allowed to carry on passengers so that it was decided to get hold of another Austrian passenger waggon to be put in between the lokomotive and the Turkish waggons.

After many hours of waiting time the train finally left with all passengers in the extra waggon and made its way in direction of Stuttgart, where it arrived around 3am in the morning. This you will be able to watch in another weblog in the next days...

"Orkester Titanik"

The slovenian ensemble had their premiere on the very last evening in Nova Gorica. "Orkester Titanik" by Hristo Bojcev tells the story of a group of clochards living in a closed railway station and hoping for a better life to come - or at least a train to Kopenhagen, Rejkjavik, St. Petersberg or Los Angeles.