German Theatre 'Start Up' Abroad at PS 122 and City-Wide
GTA's Road Theater USA embarks on a hilarious theatrical adventure – or misadventure – as five actors (three German and two from the US), two Austrian video artists and the GTA team go cross-country in a tricked out school bus, travelling from New York to Los Angeles in search of the "American Dream" and touring the world premiere of Start Up, a black comedy written specifically for GTA by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Germany's most produced contemporary playwright.Start Up will run at Performance Space 122 from Sunday, October 7 through Sunday, October 14.

"In Start Up, an assorted crew of merry pranksters come up with what they believe is their million-euro idea: to sell German culture to Americans – which is of course the exact same thing that GTA is doing as it travels across the country presenting this fast-paced farce," explain press notes, "A video team documents this ambitious road trip, then mines the video material collected up to that point live during each performance where it is projected on set. This always new and expanded dramatic 'Road Journal' will interact with the production of the play Start Up as background and stage design. The audience is treated to a unique, riotous and ever-changing performance event, a combination of the filmed 'reality' of the tour and the theatrical 'fiction' of the Schimmelpfennig play."

The trip will take the troupe from New York through 14 cities and in the US over seven weeks. They will travel 4,500 miles and perform in 16 locations – including forgotten villages like Gadsden, Alabama, glorious cities like Las Vegas and melting pots like El Paso on the Texas/Mexico border – until they reach Los Angeles.