Written by Kenny Burnham

Bring Again The Now Of Then

What does it mean to be forgotten in your own life-time? To be aware your work is slipping from collective memory? Gertrud Grunow, the only female master during its spiritual phase of the Bauhaus in Weimar, worked with fellow colleagues whom depended upon her research to underpin their own teachings. Bring Again The Now Of Then finds Gertrud in her study as she collects piles of papers containing a lifetime’s work. As she files, reminiscing of her time at the Bauhaus, the story of the school’s early years unfolds. It was an environment of artists, spiritualists, designers, synesthetes, philosophers and opinionated students; in a society of revolutionaries, reactionaries, communists, conservatives, nationalists and internationalists. Sensing her time is near an end, Gertrud approaches an unlikely contact to compile her esoteric manuscript. It’s not too late…is it?

Recorded at Castlemilk Youth Complex.

Cast

Gertrud / Grunow - Jill Korn

Walter Gropius - Mark Coleman

Lyonel Feininger - Andy Jones

Johannes Itten - Stuart Edgar

Wassily Kandinsky, Mayor - Iain McAleese

Greta - Dani Heron

Helga - Lauren Downie

Otti - Julia Ndlovu

Kurt - Lorenzo Novani

Baudert - Kenny Burnham

Sound engineer: Paul Gallagher

Post-production: Alex Bennett