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The Berlin dance theatre cabaret performance artist Bridge Markland is a virtuoso of roleplay and transformation. An artist who effortlessly crosses boundaries between underground and sophisticated art, between dance, theatre, performance, cabaret, childrens- and puppet theatre.
Her specialty are transgender performances in which the audience can experience the transformation from female to male and vice versa.
Since 2005 Bridge Markland has been interested in themes of classic German theatre. She transforms these literary texts into modern collages with popular music and performs them as solo shows. Out came “schiller in the box” (German) about live and work of poet Friedrich Schiller, “faust in the box” (German) + “faust in the box” (english) after Goethe’s Faust 1, “krug in the box” (German) Heinrich von Kleist: “The broken jug ” for the generations pop, rock and popular German song.
Since 2002 she has been working with the Australian/German children and young peoples theatre company Platypus Theater, performing “Angstmän” in the play of the same name.
“Alice” after "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" / Platypus Theater had it's premiere in October 2009. Bridge Markland plays the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee, the Gryphon and some other roles.