Braakland (Wasteland) named one of the best performances of 2009
Jan 4, 2010 6:13 pm
Braakland (or Wasteland) was performed on Governors Island this past September as a part of the New Island Festival. Theatremania just named the performance one of the top 10 performances of 2009. Braakland was a performance piece that told the story of nine people wandering through a forgotten place. Inspired by the novels of John Coetzee, the production used penetrating imagery to bring the violence and desolation of his books to life. Director Lotte van den Berg staged the action hundreds of feet from the audience, creating an expansive physical distance. This staging led Theatremania’s Andy Propst to declare, “Watched from a distance, this brutal exploration of man’s inhumanity to man featured a host of committed and strikingly detailed performances, which made the action chillingly immediate.”[caption id=“attachment_2441” align=“aligncenter” width=“225” caption=“Braakland was performed on the southern portion of Governors Island as a part of the New Island Festival. Here, actors perform hundreds of feet from the audience, creating a unique theatrical experience (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/istolethetv/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).”]
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