berlin — ted witzel // blog

pleasure, populism, & the public // thoughts on the future of arts institutions with twenty pictures of swans

when did the arts stop being ‘fun’? we’ve found ourselves shouting into an echoing void telling an increasingly unhearing public that they don’t know what’s good for them.

ted witzelAugust 9, 2018ted witzel, diane ragsdale, stratford festival, berlin, toronto theatre, steven tepper, cultural theory, cultural policy, arts administration, culture track, audience dataComment

BERLIN MANIFESTO #8.3 // NO BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE

some thoughts about meat orgies, the kickstarter economy, and where the hell we'll find an audience again.

long reads from elsewhere, buddies in bad timested witzelOctober 4, 2017belgrade, berlin, theatre, volksbühne, maxim gorki theater, schaubühne, shakespeare in high park, kickstarter, mount olympus, jan fabré, buddies in bad times, queerComment

POSTCARDS FROM BERLIN

this is an exercise i invented for myself to process a bunch of work i was seeing while based in berlin a couple years back.

these aren’t reviews by any means.

they’re freewheeling reflections

ted witzelSeptember 1, 2017berlin, theatre, toronto theatre, schaubühne, volksbühne, deutsches theater, maxim gorki theater, berliner ensembleComment

FAILED BERLIN MANIFESTO #6.3

do we need a bout of stalinism to happen to us before we start to think that theatre could be important of impactful?

buddies in bad times, long reads from elsewhereted witzelNovember 2, 2015berlin, theatre, schaubühne, maxim gorki theater, audience, despotism, toronto, buddies in bad timesComment