Watch the complete show of '33(a kabarett), recorded live in the 800 seat Chernihiv Opera House in 2018:
Touring and Booking information:
'33 (a kabarett) lasts 75 minutes without an intermission.
It is adaptable to a great variety of performance spaces. It has played on Main Stages and in non-traditional spaces.
It is performed with either live accompaniment from a Cabaret style Jazz Trio, or with backing tracks recorded for the show by Bremner's jazz trio.
For technical specifications please contact us at bigemptybarn@gmail.com
'33 (a kabarett) tours with the possibility of three possible workshops, and two related concerts:
'33 (a kabarett) also tours with the possibility of accompanying concerts:
2. Cabaret Songs of the 1920's and 30's: from Dietrich to Noel Coward.
In Germany, between WWI and WWII, Kabarett was the most important creative place for musical and theatrical experimentation. Kabarett (as made popular in the musical ‘Cabaret’) was a form of musical theatre where the songs and skits often confronted and satirized the audience, instead of simply entertaining them. Satire, sex, scandal and humour flourished on stage, as song writers like Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender created classic songs like ‘Mack the Knife’ and ‘Falling in Love Again’ and took on important social topics of personal freedoms and gender equality. The stars of Kabarett were the brilliant Master of Ceremonies who mocked the political and social powers of the country. This concert will explore that moment in time with classic songs from the era and stories from those theatrical spaces.
'33 (a kabarett) lasts 75 minutes without an intermission.
It is adaptable to a great variety of performance spaces. It has played on Main Stages and in non-traditional spaces.
It is performed with either live accompaniment from a Cabaret style Jazz Trio, or with backing tracks recorded for the show by Bremner's jazz trio.
For technical specifications please contact us at bigemptybarn@gmail.com
'33 (a kabarett) tours with the possibility of three possible workshops, and two related concerts:
- Creating Solo Theatre
- Why create a one-person show? For the chance to tell a story that thrills you. Auditioning for someone else’s show is about fulfilling someone else expectations. Creating your own work allows you to push yourself in ways a casting agent or producer would never allow. Because their priority is getting their show on stage, not your artistic potential. This workshop helps you build compelling, authentic and theatrical solo performance. Come with a fully formed idea, or come in with no idea whatsoever. Discover what your show’s about, which techniques to use, what structure to give it, and what your working process will be. What you’ll need to bring is curiosity, openness and a desire to communicate something on stage.
- Singing for the Theatre
- Bremner draws on his 25 years of experience in every form of singing theatre to show that singing for the theatre is not about the vocal quality of the performer but the power and emotion of the delivery, and seeing the performer connecting to the song. It’s about the physicality of the performer and how they embody character in the songs. In this workshop we will learn how to find those characters and use the whole body as we sing.
- The Struggle for Artistic Freedom and Expression in the 20th Century
- The 20th Century was a time of wild, expressive freedoms in the Arts and Culture, and a time of massive attempted repression of those same Arts. Regimes around the world have made it a priority to destroy cultural ideas they deem inappropriate and silence voices that might resist them. How did artistic workers resist these enormous forces and continue to make art and express themselves? What can we learn today from these movements of struggle and freedom? How do the struggles of the past allow us to be creative in our daily lives and recognize attempts to shut down dialogue and creativity.
'33 (a kabarett) also tours with the possibility of accompanying concerts:
- Songs of Struggle and Human Rights: from the Spanish Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
2. Cabaret Songs of the 1920's and 30's: from Dietrich to Noel Coward.
In Germany, between WWI and WWII, Kabarett was the most important creative place for musical and theatrical experimentation. Kabarett (as made popular in the musical ‘Cabaret’) was a form of musical theatre where the songs and skits often confronted and satirized the audience, instead of simply entertaining them. Satire, sex, scandal and humour flourished on stage, as song writers like Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender created classic songs like ‘Mack the Knife’ and ‘Falling in Love Again’ and took on important social topics of personal freedoms and gender equality. The stars of Kabarett were the brilliant Master of Ceremonies who mocked the political and social powers of the country. This concert will explore that moment in time with classic songs from the era and stories from those theatrical spaces.
'33(a kabarett) has been performed at festivals and theatre across the USA and Canada.
It was recently invited to Yervan, Armenia to open the Armmono Theatre Festival on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
In Europe it has been performed in theatres and festivals in France, the United Kingdom, Macedonia,Russia, Moldova, Ukraine and Germany.
THEATRE AND FESTIVAL RECOMMENDATIONS:
It was recently invited to Yervan, Armenia to open the Armmono Theatre Festival on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
In Europe it has been performed in theatres and festivals in France, the United Kingdom, Macedonia,Russia, Moldova, Ukraine and Germany.
THEATRE AND FESTIVAL RECOMMENDATIONS: