Times change and things move on. "The past," as L.P Hartley (1892-1972) wrote in his 1956 novel The Go-Between, "is a foreign country, they do things differently there."
They certainly do, and it certainly is if you are German. There's the disappearance of the Berlin Wall that was for generations a given fact of life -- and with it the end of a communist era in Eastern Europe that few could ever have imagined would happen peacefully.
It is such seemingly chaotic change and the loss of old certainties and senses of direction that lies at the provocative core of "Endstation Amerika," a daring revision of Tennessee Williams's classic "A Streetcar Named Desire" by the acclaimed, avant-garde dramatist Frank Castorf, who was born in East Berlin in 1951.