Timberlake Wertenbaker: “Our Country’s Good” Imagine the thrill before the curtain rises! ([ju:pi] – Studentenzeitung der Uni Passau, Nr.6, 06/2001) “Die witzige und eigenwillige Aufführung machte den Zuschauern bewusst, dass ein Fremdsprachen-Theater an der Hochschule großartige Potenziale und Perspektiven entwickeln kann…”
2000 – “Looking for Lysistrata” by Aristophanes (translated by Dudley Fitts)
When Lysistrata, Athenian housewife and mother, calls the women of Greece to a meeting in one of the public squares of Athens, nobody imagines that the actions of a few women can bring the male society to its knees and an end to the twenty-year Athenian-Spartan war ravaging Greece.Led by Lysistrata, women from all parts […]
1999 – “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare
Leontes, the King of Sicilia, rashly accuses his pregnant queen, Hermione, of having committed adultery with his childhood friend Polixenes, the King of Bohemia.It is with this intrigue and the ensuing banishment of the new-born “bastard” princess, that the magical narrative unfolds. Autolycus, courtly rogue and omnipotent magician, brings the protagonists to life. The audience […]