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Depressed German Man Visits Williamsburg, A Play

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Depressed German Man Visits Williamsburg, A Play

Depressed German Man Visits Williamsburg, A Play

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Depressed German Man Visits Williamsburg, A Play

Klaus Richter opens his monologue: “I am Klaus. I am a sad German man who goes on trips.” Part travelogue, part cry for help, Klaus relates his trips to Williamsburg, to Disneyland, and on ayahuasca. The one-act monologue, written and performed by comedian Nick Zielinski, is entitled “Be Not Afraid, Klaus,” and was performed last Friday at a (literally) underground theater at the Tea Factory Lofts. Walk through someone’s kitchen, down a rickety wooden staircase in total darkness and you will be at NXT LVL, a theater space with shiny black walls, exposed light bulbs, and wide wooden benches. Here, in an accented monotone and with a perpetual thousand-mile stare, his only prop a white porcelain horse head, Klaus tell us his impressions of America in general and our little part of America in particular.

The obvious criticisms of hipsters in general and Williamsburg in particular have been trampled to death by the obligatory jokes about the commercialization of cool and quirk for quirk’s sake…

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