Early conceptual sketch
This weekend will see the inauguration of a permanent outdoor art and sound installation by Robert Wilson, entitled “Yes There No Where,” in the city of Monheim am Rhein. The work, situated in the idyllic Marienburg Park not far from the river Rhine, opens within the sound art festival “Monheim Triennale II.” After the festival closes on July 2, the installation will remain there permanently, open and free to the public.
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Soňa Červená in The Makropulos [Věc Makropulos] at the National Theater Prague in 2010 (Photograph © Lucie Jansch)
Last fall, the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca presented Robert Wilson’s work UBU, which was inspired by Alfred Jarry’s drama Ubu Roi, a 1896 grotesque about tyranny, greed and abuse of power. In preparation of the presentation of the work at the co-producing Kunstfest Weimar this coming August, Wilson developed a radio play on UBU for the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur, starring actress and long-time Wilson collaborator Angela Winkler. The first public broadcast will be on May 21, 2023, and the work will also be available online and in Deutschlandfunk’s podcast collection. More information here.
Angela Winkler and Robert Wilson at the Deutschlandfunk’s recording studio.(Photographs © Deutschlandradio / Gerald Michel)
A few days ago, the Municipal Theater of Piraeus, the port city for Greater Athens, announced that Bob Wilson will direct Edward Albee’s play Three Tall Women there. Wilson himself has described the project as “a real challenge. It is completely different from anything that I have done in my career, a play that is written naturalistically with a lot of chit-chat.” He has started rehearsing with a stellar cast that includes the acclaimed Greek actresses Reni Pittaki, Karofillia Karabeti and Loukia Michalopoulou. The production will open this coming November in Piraeus.
Loukia Michalopoulou, Charles Chemin, Robert Wilson, Karofillia Karabeti, Reni Pittaki
