Tausende Konzertbesucher haben durch die deutschlandweit aufgeführten Winterreisen-Performances des Autors und Projektkünstlers Stefan Weiller einen neuen Zugang zu Franz Schuberts Meisterwerk bekommen. Weiller hat zwischen 2008 und 2018 in über 30 Städten obdachlose und sozial ausgegrenzte Menschen getroffen und ihre Gedanken, Gefühle und Geschichten in kurze Texte gefasst, teils kantig und hart, teils lyrisch, manchmal lakonisch, oder grotesk, immer eindringlich und ohne Pathos. Diese...
John Rottam is on a journey back in time and place. Fleeing a private stripping engagement turned violent, he reflects on a time in his life when he was burdened with a broken heart, self-doubt and a floundering dance career. A few clumsy steps in the corps de ballet of a prestigious Canadian ballet company sends John fleeing to join a psychotic and incompetent dance troupe in Quebec City, run by the bitter Madame Talegdi, who all but destroys his dream of a legitimate career. Stifled by the...
Some people win games. Some achieve success. But when it comes right down to it, most people don’t. Failure is a guest no one invites, yet it shows up almost everywhere. The gifts it brings are easy to overlook.The Uninvited Guest is a whirlwind ride featuring Romanian hockey superstars growing up in Montreal, Danish prostitutes working in Sweden, Russian mobsters, the perils of parking in Penitanguishene, and how not to die if you want to make it home on time.Most of all,...
Wigford is a small town in rural Southwestern Ontario, home to a cast of recurring characters: Buzz, a drunk-driving father of two; his wife, who should have married Bert Walmsley instead; Happy Henry, a devout, socially inept apostle who loves to play the organ; Elmer, a stroke survivor.Wigford Rememberies tells this community's stories through an impressionistic series of vignettes. The language is inventive, innovative and exciting, and whether describing mucking out the pig...
Die Maigrets machen Ferien an der französischen Atlantikküste und der Kommissar langweilt sich – erst recht, seit Madame Maigret im Krankenhaus liegt. Er besucht sie jeden Tag und vertreibt sich die restliche Zeit in den Bistros der Hafenstadt. Bis er nach einem Besuch in der Klinik einen Zettel in seiner Jackentasche findet, auf dem er gebeten wird, Erbarmen mit einer anderen Patientin zu haben. Noch ehe er der Sache nachgehen kann, stirbt die junge Frau. Eigentlich sind Maigret, der nicht im...
Sons of revolutionaries, a classic Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer duo must grow up and find themselves when President-for-Life Robert Mugabe tightens his grip on white landowners and plunges Zimbabwe into anarchy. Julie Wakeman-Linn�s striking debut�part buddy road trip, part familial dramedy–focuses on two racially blended families as they outwit the world of diplomats, ex-pats, safari tourists, street rats, border guards, and the mercurial landscape. The result is an electrifying video capture of Africa...
Married But Available ventures into a theme about which people say as much as they withhold. It explores intersections between sex, money and power, challenging orthodoxies, revealing complexities and providing insights into the politics and economics of relationships. During six months of fieldwork in Mimboland, Lilly Loveless, a Muzungulander doctoral student in Social Geography, researches how sex shapes and is shaped by power and consumerism in Africa. The bulk of her research takes place on...
Fatti Ashi died. Startling her family and community, she comes back to life just a few hours after dying. Blessing chronicles the life of this Fatti Ashi, a young village girl who from the moment she rejoins the land of the living is faced with both obstacles and opportunities consistent with an attempted mergence of two worlds. From a child who is molded with her father�s advice to merge ancestral skull worship and Christianity to an underprivileged teenager who falls in love with the alphabet...
