Digging Deep and Getting Dirty

Collecting five plays by the German Israeli playwright Yael Ronen-includingThird Generation, A Walk on the Dark Side, Roma Army, Slippery Slope,andPlanet B-Digging Deep and Getting Dirtyis an essential introduction for English-speaking readers to the work of one of the most renowned theater-makers in Europe. Ronen's collaborative and caring methodologies and rigorous, mordantly funny, and eclectic aesthetics have shaped and transformed German-speaking theater over the past decade.

Yael Ronenwas born in Jerusalem in 1976. Ronen's play Third Generation, featuring German, Israeli and Palestinian actors, was invited to numerous festivals. Her productionHakoah Wien, developed at Schauspielhaus Graz, was awarded the Austrian Nestroy theatre prize in 2013. She staged the world premiere of the adaptation of Olga Grjasnowa's bestselling novel All Russians Love Birch Trees. Common Ground emerged as a meditation from Ronen and her actors on the aftermath of the war in former Yugoslavia; in 2015 the play was invited to the renowned Theatertreffen Festival at Berlin and won the audience award at Mlheimer Theatertage. Her latest productions at Gorki areErotic CrisisandDad Kohlhass-Prinzipas well asThe Situation, which was invited to the Theatertreffen 2016. The piece was elected as piece of the year (Stck des Jahres) 2016.The Situation, which she developed together with the six-actor ensemble, negotiates the political situation in the Middle East and was selected by the critics in the annual survey from the Theater heute journal as the play of the year in 2016. The Gorki opened its 2016/2017 season with her pieceDenial, a project about personal and political repression. In addition, Ronen was awarded the Austrian Nestroy Prize for Lost and Found in the category Best Play Author's Prize. In 2017 she received a prize from the German centre of the International Theatre Institute within the framework of World Theatre Day, and directed the world premiere ofWinterreise, with the newly founded Exil Ensemble at the Gorki. In the same year, she has also been awarded with the 14. Europe Prize for Theatrical Realities. During the season 2017/2018 she stagedRoma ArmeeandA Walk On The Dark Sideat Gorki, during the season 2018/2019 she staged YesBut Noas well as Third Generation-Next Generation at Gorki. Since the 2019/2020 season she has been a member of the newly founded Artistic Advisory Board of the Gorki Theatre, which advises Artistic Director Shermin Langhoff on the artistic direction. Her productionSlippery Slope - AlmostA Musical was invited to the 2022 Theatertreffen. She also dealt with conspiracy theories in 2022 in Operation Mindfuck -Based On A True Story, But Not Really. In the season 22/23 she is directingBlood Moon Blues.

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