BAUERNTHEATER (2007)
In Brooklyn, an actor prepares to play the role of a german farmer, in a play written in the 1950s. When the play is ready to perform, he is instead shipped to a field in Germany, where the play is set, given a ton of potatoes and two acres of land, and asked to be in character for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for a month.
I hired an American actor to play an East German farmer in a play by Heiner Müeller. After a month of rehearsal, the actor was shipped out to a field in the former East Germany, given a ton of potatoes, and asked to be "in character" for 5 weeks, 10 hours a day.
Theater Magazine (artist's essay)