by Alexey Schipenko
Moscow Drama Theater named after M. N. Ermolova.
Alexey Schipenko went into a Turkish car shop in Berlin, got fascinated by its atmosphere and wrote a play “Suzuki” where “a German kills a German”. The play was staged in Baracke by Thomas Ostermeier.
I got fascinated by Schipenko’s play and decided to set it in Moscow and bring the world of my beloved Central Asia into it. In my version a European intellectual Klaus gets to understand the meaning of his life among mechanics from Uzbekistan.
Klaus enters his magic city of Samarkand filled with miracles and revelations in a little car shop on the side of the road.
Some props were brought from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey.
/It was about my beloved East, it was funny and absurd. In the play most characters are Turkish. I made them from Central Asia. I had to look for actors with right appearance throughout Moscow. In the play they spoke an unexisting language. In my version every actor spoke his own mother language. Overall we changed the play a lot, but the author was very happy when we sent him the video to Germany.
