"NACHTBLIND" DATE: Q3 & Q4 of 2009 DETAILS:   Long time friend and director Wolf E. Rahlfs asked me to join him and musician Paolo Greco on creating "Nachtblind", a play by the swiss Daria Stocker about violence in relationships, inner-familiar or in relationsships. This is an intense play about Leyla, her dysfunctional family (mother is on pills, father has disappeared with another woman and her brother Rico is a nutcase in his own right), Leyla's boyfriend (who is busy kicking the shit out of her on every occasion) and Leylas new acquaintance: Moe. After creating seven different ideas of varying abstraction, we ended up with a vaguely cross-shaped table to allow for almost "intimate" scenes as well as for an almost 5 meter distance between the protagonists. The whole stage is kept in black and white, costumes are realistic. As if that weren't enough for an abstract, almost clinical setting, the table spins, pushed by the actors, illustrating the vicious circle, the hamster wheel of the portrayed situation. PRESS:   "The turnstile as a merry-go-round of violence." "The applause: strong and full of respect for the actors, at the same time subdued by the urge to think longer and deeper about this unusual play." (...) "ingenious stage design" (Rhein Neckar Zeitung, Mosbach/Dorothee Roos) LINKS:   Die Badische Landesbühne