Ridiculous Darkness

Wolfram Lotz writes theatre and radio plays, poetry and prose and has already been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Audience Prize of the play competition at the Berlin Theatertreffen 2010 as well as the Kleist Foerderpreis 2011 for Der Grosse Marsch. The original Burgtheater production of The Ridiculous Darkness (Die Laecherliche Finsternis) was invited to Theatertreffen Berlin as well as Muehlheimer Theatertage in 2015. Theatre Heute Magazine named him as ‘Emerging Playwright of the Year’ in 2011 and ‘Dramatist of the Year’ in 2015.Daniel Brunet is a director, performer, producer and translator. Recent work includes the 2013 documentary theatre piece Echter Berliner !!!! Ihr nicht Fuck You which Brunet directed, devised and performed in, the world premiere of the play Schwarz gemacht by Alexander Thomas in 2014, the bilingual performance Knick-Knack to the Future | Ruckzuck in die Zukunft, created with the artist collective copy & waste and invited to the 2015 steirischer herbst festival and the world premiere of Amy Evan’s play The Most Unsatisfied Town (April 2016). Brunet has received a Literature Fellowship in Translation from the National Endowment of the Arts, amongst other awards, for his translations of German plays by writers including Wolfram Lotz, Dea Loher, Falk Richter, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Heiner Müller. His translations and essays have been published in PEN America, The Mercurian, Asymptote, Theater, TheatreForum, Contemporary Theatre Review, alt.theatre and MiGAZIN.