According to the programme notes to the production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which played in Prenzlauer Berg this weekend, “the play evokes the motive of a humanist enlightened search for coherency in a seemingly postmodern fragmented world.” It is perhaps then no surprise that two of the directors/actors in the production are ECLA alums: Rouven Ramon Steinfeld (Germany, 2004-2005) and Florian Hoffmann (Germany, 2002-2004) directed and played the two main characters in the play.
The production, which drew an audience of about forty people to each of the two showings, was staged in a subterranean space formerly used to store water in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. The play was supported through Student Projects funding at ECLA.