The acidental tourist

Göttingen, Rosenheim, Stuttgart, Ingolstadt, Chemnitz, Lübeck, Paderborn, Marburg, Hannover, and tonight Lüdenscheid.
In the last 2 weeks we have it seems seen a lot of towns, but in fact it has been more the case of being accidental tourist. And that is the main frustration about being on tour in a country that you have not visited before: You pass through all these beautiful towns, and their sights and sounds keep taunting you as you pass through them with barely enough time to check in at the hotel, grab something to eat then make your way to the theatre for that evenings show, the next day we repeat the story. We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not on holiday but working…. So a lot of times we content ourselves with the thought that we still have some great cities in store .We had a nice day and a half in Berlin in preparation for the 5 days we will spend there in December. The weather is getting colder now, and I have just bought a hat and gloves in preparation for the cold that will be here shortly….what am I saying that is here NOW!!
There are new pictures uploaded on Flickr and I will try to write new post on as soon as I can.

Goodbye to the Fabrik !

I may have seemed overly enthusiastic yesterday about The Fabrik. I guess the vip treatment and the perks got the better of me; Overall our shows there (last one this morning) have suffered from the fact that this space is only used for concert at nights. The skylight completely blew away any intentions of making the same kind of magic as we do in normal theatres. This has been slightly better at night, although the very small stage has meant improvising and cutting where needed.
As it is already hard enough to draw in a audience of reluctant teenagers (and these do make out the main body of our audience) in a normal theatre, it has been nigh impossible to create the same sort of enchantment during our day performances there.
So our day performances at the Fabrik have definitely felt as if we were selling the same product to people but without all the nice packaging.

The night performances have been better, that said the audience has also been more adult. I guess everything was redeemed today as we got our free ticket for tonight’s concert with Chuck Berry! (Yes I am easily bought!) . And to finish it all off we added to the graffiti and left our mark on the changing room wall (see above pick) and who knows….Maybe Chuck Berry knows the story and will notice it and ask us round for drinks…..

But for now it’s the week-end in Hamburg...
For more pictures of us at the Fabrik check out flickr as usual...

Le Petit Prince...followed by CHUCK BERRY ?!

yes it's true we were warm up act for Chuck Berry ( so to speak !)

Hello again!

Iam sitting in the backstage area of The Fabrik in Hamburg. The walls are completely covered with grafitti...not a very nice sight normally if it weren't for the fact that the people who have been writting on the wall are for eksample: Spyro Gyra, Mezzoforte, Aimee Mann, The Ethiopians....all bands that have played here..for the Fabrik is one of Hamburgs oldest Rock Venues..strange place to stage a play I hear you say..well it certainly has its difficulties : a small stage, and no blackout possibillities during our daytime shows, and very hot Rock lamps..( for those who are technically minded I can tell you that theatres use slightly different lamps from Rock venues, basically rock concerts are always lit from behind on stage ) but anyway, let's look at the perks: I am sat in the same dressing room as Chuck Berry will be sat in tomorrow ! Yes that's right ..my claim to fame..so far..we are getting free drinks ( non alcoholic ) in a fridge backstage and fresh coffe and croissants in the morning ...Who said rockn' roll was all about drugs and sex? And the final perk: we got free tickets to see Chuck Berry tomorrow how cool is that !? He is playing here tomorrow evening. If you want to find out more about the place go to

http://www.fabrik.de/en/fabrik/ .

So although we have had to amend the show for our daylight audiences, the one evening show we had last night was good and the audience was very responsive.

Warning mutations !!

Just a little post from our hotel in Deminhorst, where a hotel sign asking you to save the environment by not having your towels washed everyday just doesn't do it for me: it looks like ET already has mutated into something QUITE DIFFERENT !! UAAAAAAHHH!!

On to Hamburg !

Hello from the ice cafe in Delmenhorst

It is strange when you are on tour…this time last week we were in Bayreuth in the strange 70’s Hotel, and this week we are near Munich, in between performances at the Kleines Haus Theatre. Audience this morning was rather chatty, and did not seem to understand much a lot of them were quite young as well, which doesn’t always help.
We are in Delmenhorst a suburb of Bremen and tonight after the show we are driving into Hamburg. Weather is getting colder, but we still have lots of sunshine but no doubt that will change, we are November now and I haven’t yet
used any of the thermal wear that I have packed…no doubt that that will change. We had a nice week-end in Munich! Went to see the Bavarian Film studios were apparently Dustin Hoffman had just been filming Patrick Suskind’s Perfume. Pictures will be available soon on Flickr. I am still trying to upload movies to my blog as the ones that I take with my camera a quite good.