and a feast for the taste buds for the eyes and ears a musical dinner in france is the latest in genre bending performance ours. well as a leading figure of the guard in russia killed a set of a brainy cop has made his name directing plays and films that challenge the status quo he's critical of everything social norms the church and of course the kremlin well i made a lot of enemies and in two thousand and seventeen he was put under house arrest supporters said it was an attempt to gag a critical voice that said it but any cough continue to work against all odds. rendition of bad is classic noble cause which premiered in hamburg this past march it was directed by karylle setterberg a call from a distance using u.s.b. sticks to exchange information a slave course laments the last time but in this update the original hebrew slaves

have been replaced by actual refugees from syria and afghanistan the director puts the refugee center stage in an operation called for freedom. is considered an on form to rebuild among russian directors his work history great just political and is always good for a headline. his radical productions and remakes of classics some conservatives. the. twenty twelve he was appointed the director of the small state funded global center which he turned into one of moscow's best the us has. was. was the director's work and reputation extends well beyond brushes borders said is known for his modern. make

of this of classic productions like the head marius barber of seville at the open twenty sixteen. and as a film director his latest film little summer tells the story of two soviet rock stars in the one nine hundred seventy s. but things took a turn for the worse when an opus twenty seventeen karylle several brownie called was taken into custody of accusations that he had been involved in embezzling state funding for the charges he denies. and i'm delighted to welcome thomas also my out here to the studio a well known director here in berlin currently working at the shop in a theater and of course a friend since many years after it is said about on the cover is there also affects so much for coming in how surprised were you when you heard the news of his release today it was very surprising surprising to me because i was reckoning that will

get worse and anyway it's not the end of the story told there will be still the trial so we don't know there's a lot going on he's just been allowed out of that very tight situation and you've worked with him many times in the past you started the petition calling for his release back in two thousand and seventeen tell us a bit more about that and about him. as a person. i met him and in moscow i asked him how things are going and he told me well the question is if i already missed the last train to leave russia though he knew that he was threatened you knew that his work was challenging the political parties and he was aware that might be a danger off of the legal. something going on against him. yeah now it was five hundred forty nine days that he was under house arrest and most years almost two years and i'm really looking forward for my. first telephone

conversations and to hear how everything's going but he signed today at the court that he's not allowed to leave russia still. some threat a lot and a lot of restriction obviously on his movement now his movements but but above all his communications were extremely limited for the very nearly two years no internet no e-mail no telephone and yet he's been so very productive as we as we saw in the report there how did he do this and really yeah i was surprised to how he used to do this but he has a very good team around him and he has an elaborate faithful and he looks at the videos of the rehearsals and then gives advice gives notes of what he saw and he prepares like this the next room and this is how we did i think it was reproduction unbelievable an opera in hamburg at the state at the hamburg offer that just opened

betty's number which we saw in the thing that just premiered last month the film need to will also just want to prestigious award in russia just last week i believe the need award. what's your feeling on the whole thing do you suspect that the court actually might be influenced by all the attention no not at all because he had a lot of attention even before he got a lot of prizes before he was already a highly decorated artist it was in russia really on going all of the take out if it was just continuing all maybe some of the wards he was given to woo to support his case and to defend him against assad tease so i don't think that there is any connection i i would guess that they were aware that everything they had they tried to bring up against him was ridiculous and for example they said that he never did use the money for them it's someone i. stream production and they

were not aware that this production even went braun and went to a festival so i was a provable that he was actually provable that he had yeah i'd say that they kind of became aware it's. there's nothing against him ok well kitty to said it but i think of a pusher of boundaries who is going back to work very soon we hope that most girls go both you know we will definitely know they're all now but in russia in russia keep our eye on that story thanks very much for one of the linz resident pusher of boundaries tell us it was dumb i thank you for having me thanks so much for coming in q. well she was one of the signatories on that petition for kid instead of any cause release nobel prize winning author and feeding yet the neck of austria she's best known for her for roche's exploration of things like gender oppression and female sexuality and many autobiographical details flowed into her

nine hundred eighty three novel the piano teacher the first of her novels by the way to be translated into english and certainly not for the faint of heart. sex. what happens when we don't get any or when we don't get the right kind. for a good sexual repression is that the root of most human problems well you know if we did get the next book the piano teacher there are a lot of problems piano teacher erika's in her late thirty's but she still shares a bed with her controlling mother erica's only private life is cutting herself spying on strangers having sex and frequenting peep shows then she meets a charismatic twenty five year old student named biotech. erica would

trade anything for her last years and climber would like to trade his youth for experience the young face of a young man simmer softly under street lights and illuminated store windows next to him the pianist shrivels a piece of paper burning in a stove of the lost. erica tries to pull him into her masochistic fantasies but it turns out he plays the role of sadist much too well. nobel prize winner and the next novel is graphic. and disturbing and he won't be able to put it down. when top chefs work their callin there is magic it can get pretty loud but that usually doesn't really matter because the guests don't hear what's going on in the kitchen anyway when it comes to the dinner that we're about to experience it's

quite different because in this case all the cooking noises come together to form a kind of a color narry symphony. shaft taking a relaxed approach to his work. he's not distracted by the drama. of earth three musicians. because in this show in the french city of juan the chef is also making music with his kitchen utensils. all through the summer michael feel more like a chef from a stump but i'm also a musician who's actually i'm both simple to do. the creative force behind the musical dinner concept is the sux oftenest the

project was inspired by her own life experience. i grew up in restaurants it was owned by my grandparents i always found the restaurant noise fascinating. the daughter wants to make people more aware of the connections among the senses hearing taste and smell and create a kind of edible music the chef cooks while the musicians perform. rowdiest or the ritchie propose most of the food for the one hundred guests attending the show the main course is a fish shoe a popular dish in southern france and it's made with octopus leaks onions and potatoes even as he's preparing the food the chef gets into the rhythm of the show

. don't. know. christina for proof i always hear a kind of music when i'm working in the kitchen everything that you charge whether it's the dishes or a pot on the stove makes a certain kind of musical sound. when i'm making french fries for example the noise reminds me of approval of it through a movie troupe and so the. time now for the second part of the show the me. which has its own. sound. the musicians now double as waiters and provide the guests. and drink. just about every show is sold out it's an evening that sounds as good as it tastes.

a feast for all the senses indeed heart time is up but you can find more on those stories on our website at www dot com slash culture in the meantime all the best from us until next time and a warm bye bye for now. tera

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