Yael Ronen’s production of Common Ground at the Maxim Gorki Theatre made a real splash
Theatre in Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theatre, the
in the Balkans, produced by Israeli director
city’s smallest state theatre but one with a
Yael Ronen, at the Berlin Theatertreffen.
long-standing tradition. Langhoff’s shows
Theatre is thus now doing what has long
reach out well beyond traditional theatre-
since taken place in the worlds of Pop music
goers and have successfully attracted a new
and literature. Here, too, the biographies of the
and primarily young clientele; they reflect an
artists reflect society’s diversity, presenting
opaque process that is constantly shifting and
exciting fusions of widely differing styles to
becoming more differentiated. In 2015, the
offer new perspectives. In Pop, a whole array
Gorki Theatre was invited to present the play
of international styles of music, ranging from
Common Ground, which addresses the war
Balkan beats, Afro-American sounds and